Rates Stuck at Highs For Now; Separate Home Price Reports Confirm Strong Trend Intact
Mortgage Rates were unchanged in many cases today, with a handful of lenders inconsequentially better or worse versus yesterday's latest offerings. Despite moving lower on 4 out of the past 6 days, rates were never able to put meaningful distance between themselves and the highest levels in more than 4 months. The slow progress was partly a market phenomenon and partly due to lender strategy. Mortgage rates are driven by bond markets--specifically, mortgage-backed-securities (MBS). Bond markets were hesitant to rush back toward lower rates after topping out in mid-October because traders continued to wait for key events for the green light. Now that one of those events (the European Central Bank's official comment on its longer term bond buying plans) is on hold until early December, traders
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