Today, the mortgage interest rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage is 6.85%, according to the Mortgage Research Center, while the average rate on a 15-year mortgage is 5.86%. On a 30-year jumbo mortgage, the average rate is 7.

Mortgage interest rates slipped lower over the past week, settling at the lowest level of 2025, but remaining elevated enough to stifle normal levels of buying and selling in the housing market.

Rates on 15-year new purchase loans fell even more significantly last week, plunging 16 basis points to average 5.98% Friday. Like 30-year loans, 15-year rates sank to a two-year low in September, dropping as far as 4.97% (though the lowest Friday weekly average was 5.07%).

The average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the U.S. eased for the second week in a row, but remains just below 7%, little relief for prospective home shoppers looking ahead to the spring homebuying season.

Mortgage rates fell slightly again this week but long-term rates remain in the upper-6% range as the housing market continues to drag, waiting for greater declines.

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