{"id":4770,"date":"2017-05-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/mortgage-rates-hit-lowest-averages-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2017-05-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T00:00:00","slug":"mortgage-rates-hit-lowest-averages-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/mortgage-rates-hit-lowest-averages-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortgage Rates Hit Lowest Averages of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"36.116523400191\">\n<!--\n\n<pre>-->  <\/p>\n<div property=\"dc:description\" readability=\"17.810888252149\"><!--paging_filter--><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/realtormag.realtor.org\/sites\/realtormag.realtor.org\/files\/rmo_files\/images\/2017_may\/rates052517.png\" style=\"width: 600px; height: 244px;\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/mortgage-preapproval-guide-for-home-buyers\/\">Mortgage<\/a> rates dipped to their lowest averages of the year this week, Freddie Mac repots. \u201cAs we predicted, the 30-year mortgage rate fell 7 basis points this week in a delayed reaction to last week\u2019s sharp drop in Treasury yields,\u201d says Sean Becketti, Freddie Mac\u2019s chief economist. \u201cThe survey rate stands at 3.95 percent today, a new low for the year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Freddie Mac reported the following national averages with mortgage rates for the week ending May 25:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>30-year fixed-rate mortgages:<\/strong> averaged 3.95 percent, with an average 0.5 point, falling from last week\u2019s 4.02 percent average. Last year at this time, 30-year rates averaged 3.64 percent.<\/li>\n<li><strong>15-year fixed-rate mortgages:<\/strong> averaged 3.19 percent, with an average 0.5 point, falling from last week\u2019s 3.27 percent average. A year ago, 15-year rates averaged 2.89 percent.<\/li>\n<li><strong>5-year hybrid adjustable-rate mortgages: <\/strong>averaged 3.07 percent, with an average 0.4 point, dropping from last week\u2019s 3.13 percent average. A year ago, 5-year ARMs averaged 2.87 percent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Source: Freddie Mac<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a hre=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/DailyRealEstateNews\/~3\/q9QCMKFkSW0\/mortgage-rates-hit-lowest-averages-year\"> Realtors.org <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Mortgage rates dipped to their lowest averages of the year this week, Freddie Mac repots. &hellip; <a title=\"Mortgage Rates Hit Lowest Averages of the Year\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/mortgage-rates-hit-lowest-averages-of-the-year\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mortgage Rates Hit Lowest Averages of the Year<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4771,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[408,1295,312,41,818,479],"class_list":["post-4770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opportunities-in-new-markets","tag-mortgage","tag-mortgage-rate","tag-mortgages","tag-property","tag-real","tag-realtor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/rates052517.png?fit=600%2C244&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}