Current mortgage rates are down today and lower than they were seven days ago. Rates are lower than they were in early 2025, when the average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage reached above 7%. But rates are still relatively high as fears around stubborn inflation have kept the Federal Reserve from lowering its benchmark rate until now.

"If the Fed doesn't meet in November, I expect mortgage rates to drift with the bond market … modest day-to-day moves, not big swings," says Steven Glick, director of mortgage sales at real estate investment fintech company HomeAbroad.

The current mortgage rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage rose by 2.00% in the last week to 6.31%, according to the Mortgage Research Center. Meanwhile, the APR on a 15-year fixed mortgage climbed 0.14 percentage point during the same period to 5.

Mortgage rates are already at their lowest levels in over a year, so it remains to be seen whether the Federal Reserve's October rate cut will drive rates lower – or if the rate cut was already priced in.

The Federal Reserve announced a 25-basis-point cut to the federal funds rate at the conclusion of its meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 29. The bankers had shifted into rate-cutting mode back in September with a crop of the same size. A basis point is one one-hundredth of a percentage point, so today’s trim amounts to a quarter of a percentage point.

The Federal Reserve cuts interest rates, but the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rose 14 basis points higher. The 30-year went up from 6.13% to 6.27% per Mortgage News Daily after the Fed announcement bec

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Rates have been flirting with long term lows over the past 2 weeks, but today made it official.  Today's average top tier 30yr fixed rate perfectly matched that seen on September 16th, 2025.