{"id":267,"date":"2026-02-26T18:48:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T19:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cerulemantis.com\/?p=267"},"modified":"2026-03-25T17:33:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T17:33:19","slug":"mortgage-rates-fall-below-6-percent-for-first-time-in-more-than-3-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cerulemantis.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/26\/mortgage-rates-fall-below-6-percent-for-first-time-in-more-than-3-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortgage rates fall below 6 percent for first time in more than 3 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mortgage rates fell below 6 percent on Thursday for the first time in more than three years, marking an opening for homebuyers as inflation cools.  Currently, the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage is averaging 5.98 percent, down .03 points from last week, according to Freddie Mac.  Last year, the rate averaged 6.76 percent.  \u201cThis lower rate environment&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mortgage rates fell below 6 percent on Thursday for the first time in more than three years, marking an opening for homebuyers as inflation cools. Currently, the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage is averaging 5.98 percent, down .03 points from last week, according to Freddie Mac. Last year, the rate averaged 6.76&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cerulemantis.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/26\/mortgage-rates-fall-below-6-percent-for-first-time-in-more-than-3-years\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cerulemantis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cerulemantis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cerulemantis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cerulemantis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cerulemantis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cerulemantis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268,"href":"https:\/\/www.cerulemantis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions\/268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cerulemantis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cerulemantis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cerulemantis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cerulemantis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}