Mortgage rate
The interest rate charged on a loan to buy a home. Lenders set it from their own funding costs: the central bank's rate for variable loans, and market rates for fixed ones.
Example
The average US 30-year fixed mortgage rate was 7.18% on 5 November 2026, more than two points above the 10-year Treasury yield of 4.84%.
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