July 02, 2022 - 12:30pm | By Kyle Cornell
(Tysons Corner, VA) -- The steady rise in mortgage rates has finally paused.
Freddie Mac says the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage is averaging at five-point-seven percent for the week ending June 30th. Last week it was at a 14-year high of five-point-eight-one percent. It's the first week in a month that the 30-year-rate has decreased.
A chief economist for Freddie Mac says the pause should help the housing market "rebalanced from the breakneck growth of a seller's market," to "a more normal pace of home price appreciation."