Fixed Rate Mortgages So is it true 30 year fixed rate mortgages are at 3.25%? Well that depends on how you look at. The answer is yes if you willing to invest discount points to purchase your interest rate down, so long as your financial profile is completely flawless. Otherwise for the 99.9% us, 30 year mortgages are trailing between 3.5% to 4.25%. That's been the reality of the mortgage bond market over the last few weeks since the 30 year fixed rate mortgage hit an all-time record of 3.53% on July 19, 2012. 30 year mortgage rates you see on television and the internet are not the best barometer of where rates truly are... Here's why: the bond market is moving all day long in … [Read more...]