US Mortgage Rates May Stay High Until 2027! Fannie Mae Sharply Raises Forecast, Projecting 30-Year Mortgage Rates to Reach 7.5% Next Year

Zhito Finance APP has learned that the pressure of high interest rates in the U.S. housing market may persist for a longer period. Fannie Mae, the U.S. housing mortgage financing institution, has just significantly raised its mortgage rate forecasts for the fourth quarter of 2026 and for all of 2027, expecting the average rate on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages in the United States to reach 7.4% in the fourth quarter of this year and remain at 7.5% throughout 2027. Previously, Fannie Mae's forecasts for those two periods were 6.8% and 6.7%, respectively.