Mortgage rates drop below 3%

Just over a year ago I published Are mortgage rates headed to 3%?.

Well, this week they dipped below 3%:

Will rates go even lower?

Maybe. I have written many times that the 30-year Fixed Rate Mortgage (FRM) has averaged a spread of about 1.7% above the yield on the US 10-year Treasury (10T).  With 10T yielding 0.62% that would imply a normalised FRM of 2.32%. But, as you may have noticed, these are not normal times.

I will publish a fuller article tomorrow showing the historical links between FRM and 10T – and the other occasions when the spread has widened considerably.

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