Mortgage rates remain high

For the typical lender, mortgage rates today are essentially unchanged from yesterday. According to yesterday's late-day revisions, some are doing better while others are doing a little worse

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Those who didn't vote had to raise their rates a little bit this morning. On average, nothing changed.

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