Mortgage Rates Move Higher

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The FOMC announced its first rate hike of 2017 and hinted at additional increases throughout the remainder of the year. Although Freddie Mac’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey® (PMMS®) was conducted prior to the Fed’s decision, the release of the February jobs report all but guaranteed a rate hike and boosted the 30-year mortgage rate 9 basis points to 4.30 percent this week.

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