Today, the mortgage interest rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage is 6.85%, according to the Mortgage Research Center, while the average rate on a 15-year mortgage is 5.86%. On a 30-year jumbo mortgage, the average rate is 7.

Mortgage interest rates slipped lower over the past week, settling at the lowest level of 2025, but remaining elevated enough to stifle normal levels of buying and selling in the housing market.

Rates on 15-year new purchase loans fell even more significantly last week, plunging 16 basis points to average 5.98% Friday. Like 30-year loans, 15-year rates sank to a two-year low in September, dropping as far as 4.97% (though the lowest Friday weekly average was 5.07%).