{"id":6,"date":"2026-09-01T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/louiseandbernie-com\/2026\/09\/01\/homebuyers-stay-selective-amid-stable-mortgage-rates\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T10:00:00","slug":"homebuyers-stay-selective-amid-stable-mortgage-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.louiseandbernie.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/01\/homebuyers-stay-selective-amid-stable-mortgage-rates\/","title":{"rendered":"Homebuyers Stay Selective Amid Stable Mortgage Rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>Mortgage demand declined 2.2% as the 30-year fixed mortgage rate rose slightly to 6.58%, keeping refinance and purchase activity subdued. Refinance volume fell 4% weekly but remained 8% above last year, while purchase applications dropped 1% but were 5% higher year-over-year. VA loan applications increased 5%, boosting government purchase volume. Jumbo and 15-year fixed rates moved modestly, with geopolitical tensions potentially influencing future rate changes.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/mortgage-applications-demand-drop-rates-070826\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mortgage demand declined 2.2% as the 30-year fixed mortgage rate rose slightly to 6.58%, keeping refinance and purchase activity subdued. Refinance volume fell 4% weekly but remained 8% above last year, while purchase applications dropped 1% but were 5% higher year-over-year. VA loan applications increased 5%, boosting government purchase volume. Jumbo and 15-year fixed rates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":233,"featured_media":36,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louiseandbernie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louiseandbernie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louiseandbernie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louiseandbernie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/233"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louiseandbernie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.louiseandbernie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louiseandbernie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louiseandbernie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louiseandbernie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louiseandbernie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}