While home equity rates have traded in a tight range this month, they are still lower than personal loan rates, which currently average 12.64 percent, and especially credit card rates, which average 20.

Mortgage rates hold steady July 23, 2025, with 30-year fixed at 6.625%. Trump hints at capital gains tax cut for home sales.

After a five-week decline, mortgage rates have now climbed for three straight weeks. But that doesn't necessarily mean you should hit pause on your house hunt.

Mortgage rates retreated this week, with the 30-year fixed rate averaging 6.76 percent, compared to 6.81 percent the previous week, according to Bankrate’s latest lender survey.

U.S. President Donald Trump has created a lot of leverage on trade with his letters on tariff rates, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Bloomberg Television in an interview on Wednesday.

If you have a purchase looming on the horizon, it’s time to take advantage of a hot new offer from Discover. The bank has announced a limited-time interest rate increase on its six-month certificate of deposit (CD) accounts,

Several large U.S. banks announced CD rate increases today—a welcome development at a time when most CD shoppers have been expecting rates to stay flat.

The Bank of Japan will raise its key interest rate by at least 25 basis points by year-end, a majority of economists said in a Reuters poll, although that could be swayed by global trade tensions and domestic political uncertainty.

Real estate billionaire Jeff Greene sees a housing boom once interest rates fall, and says he's worried about the US debt and a lack of immigration.