Assuming a 3.5% down payment and excluding tax and insurance, the typical payment at today’s 6.67% mortgage rate on a median-priced $440,000 home is roughly $2,731 per month. Last week, a median-priced home at a 6.77% mortgage rate would have cost homebuyers $2,760 per month—$29 more than what buyers would pay today.

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