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Mortgage Rates 📢 April 27th, 2026
Mortgage Rates Mixed Bag ↔️. Powell's last Fed meeting. Last week's big events turned out to be a nothing burger.
Glenn Groves
April 27, 2026
INTEREST RATES
10 Year T-Note 180-day snapshot
Product | Rate / APR | Weekly Change |
|---|---|---|
↔️ Conv. | 6.250% / 6.285% | -.000% |
⬆️ Conv. HB | 6.500% / 6.517% | +.125% |
⬇️ JUMBO | 6.250% / 6.267% | -.125% |
↔️ FHA 3.5% DP | 5.625% / 6.584% | -.000% |
↔️ VA 0% DP | 5.625% / 5.863% | -.000% |
Rate data as of morning of publication. Unless noted otherwise, all scenarios are assuming 30 Year-Fixed mortgage, Purchase or R/T Refinance. No origination points charged, 780 FICO score, and 20% down payment. Provided for consumer education only and does not serve as a binding offer to extend lending. Payment period, interest rate, APR, and other terms subject to income, asset, and credit profile qualification. Provided courtesy of GTG Financial, Inc. NMLS 1595076. Equal housing opportunity. www.nmlsconsumeraccess.org
⏱️ Rates in 60 Seconds
🏦 The Fed meets on Wednesday, and this one is Powell's swan song. Jerome Powell will preside over his final meeting as Fed Chair before Kevin Warsh takes over in June. Nobody is expecting a rate cut. The market knows it. The Fed knows it. But every sentence from the press conference will get parsed for clues about what comes next, and a Fed transition mid-cycle is the definition of uncertainty. Bond markets do not love uncertainty, which means rates could move on tone alone, even if no policy changes.
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📊 Thursday is the real test. PCE drops. PCE stands for Personal Consumption Expenditures, and it is the inflation number the Fed actually watches. CPI gets the headlines, but PCE is what shapes policy. A cool reading gives bonds room to rally and pulls mortgage rates lower. A hot one undoes the progress bonds have clawed back over the past two weeks. Either way, this report sets the tone heading into May.
🔄 Loose Ends from Last Week
Two stories we flagged were supposed to move the market. Neither did.
Kevin Warsh's path to Fed Chair got smoother, not messier. The DOJ dropped its probe into Powell and the Fed renovation project, and Senator Tillis is now backing Warsh for a clean June confirmation. The market had been pricing his confirmation in for weeks, so the cleared path was a non-event. The drama lived mostly in the headlines. | The Iran ceasefire turned into a nothing burger. The US extended the deadline before it expired, kicking the can down the road. Oil ticked slightly higher on the original headline, but mortgage bonds did not blink. Two weeks of buildup, one quiet extension, zero market reaction. |
The lesson: the bond market is forward-looking, and most of the time it has already done the math before the headline hits. Warsh's confirmation was baked in weeks ago. The Iran ceasefire was a genuine wild card, but the market chose to wait and see instead of panic, and that patience paid off. Knee-jerk reactions sell ad space. Scheduled data drops like Thursday's PCE move rates.
What to watch this week
Tuesday: Case-Shiller and FHFA home price data
Wednesday: New home construction, Fed rate decision and Powell press conference
Thursday: PCE inflation, Q1 GDP first estimate, jobless claims
Realtor Insight: Rates got a small gift this week, but do not pass that gift to your clients as a trend. With the Iran deadline and the Fed Chair hearing both landing in the same week, volatility is the base case, not the exception. If your buyer is qualified and ready, today's pricing is something to lock, not something to wait on. Waiting to see what happens next week is a coin flip, not a strategy.
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