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Home loan interest rates have dipped for five straight weeks, with the average 30-year fixed mortgage now at 6.67 percent.

Mortgage rates fell this week, according to data from Freddie Mac released on Thursday. The average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage is 6.67%, down from 6.77% last week.

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Every Thursday, Freddie Mac, a government-sponsored buyer of mortgage loans, publishes a weekly average of 30-year mortgage rates. Last week's reading ticked down 1 basis point to 6.84%.

According to Freddie Mac’s weekly rate survey, the rate on a 30-year fixed-rate loan averaged 6.77%, a decrease of 0.04 percentage points from the previous week. Last year, the rate averaged 6.86% ...

Freddie Mac reports an average 6.85% for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage, down 4 basis points from last week's average 6.89%, according to its weekly Prime Mortgage Market Survey of nationwide ...