{"id":29550,"date":"2026-04-09T16:40:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T16:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thefundingpoints.com\/?p=29550"},"modified":"2026-04-09T16:40:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T16:40:38","slug":"mortgage-rates-fall-after-us-iran-ceasefire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefundingpoints.com\/?p=29550","title":{"rendered":"Mortgage rates fall after US-Iran ceasefire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><u>Mortgage rates<\/u> fell this week after President Donald Trump announced a two-week ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Freddie Mac&#8217;s latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey, released Thursday, showed the average rate on the benchmark <u>30-year fixed mortgage<\/u> declined to 6.37% from last week&#8217;s reading of 6.46%.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The average rate on a 30-year loan was 6.62% a year ago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LOS ANGELES LEADS NATION IN MASSIVE POPULATION EXODUS AS \u2018BREAKING POINT\u2019 HITS GOLDEN STATE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The average rate on a 15-year fixed mortgage ticked lower to 5.74% from last week&#8217;s reading of 5.77%.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/economy\/mortgage-rates-april-9-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mortgage rates fell this week after President Donald Trump announced a two-week ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. Freddie Mac&#8217;s latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey, released Thursday, showed the average rate on the benchmark 30-year fixed mortgage declined to 6.37% from last week&#8217;s reading of 6.46%.\u00a0 The average rate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29550","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mortgage rates fall after US-Iran ceasefire - The Funding Points<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thefundingpoints.com\/?p=29550\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mortgage rates fall after US-Iran ceasefire - The Funding Points\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mortgage rates fell this week after President Donald Trump announced a two-week ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. 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