{"id":67437,"date":"2026-02-26T14:59:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T19:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/26\/average-long-term-mortgage-rate-falls-below-6-in-time-for-spring-home-buying-season\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T14:59:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T19:59:22","slug":"average-long-term-mortgage-rate-falls-below-6-in-time-for-spring-home-buying-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/26\/average-long-term-mortgage-rate-falls-below-6-in-time-for-spring-home-buying-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Average long-term mortgage rate falls below 6% in time for spring home-buying season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Benchmark 30-year fixed mortgage rate fell to 5.98% from 6.01% last week, the lowest level since September 2022<\/p>\n<p>The average long-term US <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/mortgages-us\">mortgage<\/a> rate slipped this week below 6% for the first time since late 2022, good news for home shoppers as the spring home-buying season gets rolling.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark 30-year fixed mortgage rate fell to 5.98% from 6.01% last week, mortgage buyer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/freddiemacandfanniemae\">Freddie Mac<\/a> said on Thursday. One year ago, the rate averaged 6.76%.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/26\/mortgage-rate-falls\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benchmark 30-year fixed mortgage rate fell to 5.98% from 6.01% last week, the lowest level since September 2022 The average long-term US mortgage rate slipped this week below 6% for the first time since late 2022, good news for home shoppers as the spring home-buying season gets rolling. The benchmark 30-year fixed mortgage rate fell &#8230; <a title=\"Average long-term mortgage rate falls below 6% in time for spring home-buying season\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/26\/average-long-term-mortgage-rate-falls-below-6-in-time-for-spring-home-buying-season\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Average long-term mortgage rate falls below 6% in time for spring home-buying season\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}