{"id":20737,"date":"2017-06-01T13:08:15","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T13:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sek.gr\/?p=20737\/"},"modified":"2017-06-01T13:08:15","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T13:08:15","slug":"mortgage-rates-in-u-s-drop-to-lowest-levels-of-2017-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sek.gr\/en\/mortgage-rates-in-u-s-drop-to-lowest-levels-of-2017-in-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortgage Rates in U.S. Drop to Lowest Levels of 2017 in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Freddie Mac&#8217;s latest <b><i>Primary Mortgage Market Survey<\/i><\/b>, the average mortgage rates hitting their lowest mark of the year in Mid-May 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Sean Becketti, chief economist of Freddie Mac said, &#8220;As we predicted, the 30-year mortgage rate fell 7 basis points this week in a delayed reaction to last week&#8217;s sharp drop in Treasury yields. The survey rate stands at 3.95 percent today, a new low for the year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>Freddie Mac News Facts<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>30-year fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) averaged 3.95 percent with an average 0.5 point for the week ending May 25, 2017, down from last week when it averaged 4.02 percent. A year ago at this time, the 30-year FRM averaged 3.64 percent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>15-year FRM this week averaged 3.19 percent with an average 0.5 point, down from last week when it averaged 3.27 percent. A year ago at this time, the 15-year FRM averaged 2.89 percent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>5-year Treasury-indexed hybrid adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM) averaged 3.07 percent this week with an average 0.4 point, down from last week when it averaged 3.13 percent. A year ago at this time, the 5-year ARM averaged 2.87 percent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Freddie Mac&#8217;s latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey, the average mortgage rates hitting their lowest mark of the year in Mid-May 2017. Sean Becketti, chief economist of Freddie Mac said, &#8220;As we predicted, the 30-year mortgage rate fell 7 basis points this week in a delayed reaction to last week&#8217;s sharp drop in Treasury yields. The survey rate stands at 3.95 percent today, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20738,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sek.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20737"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sek.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sek.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sek.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sek.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sek.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20740,"href":"https:\/\/sek.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20737\/revisions\/20740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sek.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sek.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sek.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sek.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}