HOUSING • AFFORDABILITY
Mortgage rates hit a seven-week low this week — 6.43%, per Freddie Mac. Sounds like progress. But put 20% down on the median home at $429,300, lock in a 30-year fixed, and you’re looking at $2,155 a month. Just principal and interest. Run that same math in 2019 — same percentage down, same loan type — and you got $1,072. Prices rose 54%. The rate jumped from 4.07% to 6.43%. And the monthly payment didn’t just go up. It doubled.
Over 30 years, today’s buyer will write roughly $390,000 more in mortgage checks than a 2019 buyer — for the same kind of house, in the same kind of neighborhood.
Source: National Association of Realtors, May 2026; Freddie Mac PMMS, July 2, 2026
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