In the first week of August, the average 30-year mortgage rate stayed mostly flat at 6.63% APR. This is three basis points lower than a week ago.
A basis point is one one-hundredth of a percentage point, and we calculate our weekly average using daily APRs provided by Zillow over the past five business days.
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