{"id":17,"date":"2026-09-13T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/fahadinam-com\/2026\/09\/13\/homebuyers-remain-active-despite-rising-mortgage-rates\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T12:00:00","slug":"homebuyers-remain-active-despite-rising-mortgage-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fahadinam.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/13\/homebuyers-remain-active-despite-rising-mortgage-rates\/","title":{"rendered":"Homebuyers Remain Active Despite Rising Mortgage Rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>Mortgage applications fell 2.9% from the previous week, with refinance applications down 2% and purchase applications down 4%. Mortgage rates rose, with the 30-year fixed rate reaching 6.81%, the highest in over a year. Higher rates have weakened demand, with refinance share at 39.9% and adjustable-rate mortgages at 7.9%. The Mortgage Intent Index dropped to its lowest non-holiday level since December 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.housingwire.com\/articles\/mortgage-applications-slip-rates\/\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mortgage applications fell 2.9% from the previous week, with refinance applications down 2% and purchase applications down 4%. Mortgage rates rose, with the 30-year fixed rate reaching 6.81%, the highest in over a year. Higher rates have weakened demand, with refinance share at 39.9% and adjustable-rate mortgages at 7.9%. The Mortgage Intent Index dropped to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":46,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fahadinam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fahadinam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fahadinam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fahadinam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fahadinam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fahadinam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fahadinam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fahadinam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fahadinam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fahadinam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}