{"id":36,"date":"2026-04-16T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/?p=36"},"modified":"2026-04-16T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T10:00:00","slug":"fannie-mae-mortgage-rates-will-drop-to-5-7-by-year-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"Fannie Mae: Mortgage Rates Will Drop To 5.7% By Year End"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\"\n                src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/michael-tran-1\/fannie-drop-fiveseven\"\n                frameborder=\"0\"\n                allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"\n                allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>Fannie Mae forecasts 30-year mortgage rates falling to 5.7% by Q4 2026, down from ~6.0% in early 2026.<br \/>\nNational Association of Realtors expects home sales to rise about 14% in 2026 as lower rates bring buyers back.<br \/>\nSingle-family housing starts projected to drop 6.2% year-over-year through the first three quarters of 2026, limiting supply.<br \/>\nConstruction expected to rebound 5.1% in 2027, but tight inventory in 2026 may keep competition elevated despite lower rates.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fannie Mae forecasts 30-year mortgage rates falling to 5.7% by Q4 2026, down from ~6.0% in early 2026. National Association of Realtors expects home sales to rise about 14% in 2026 as lower rates bring buyers back. Single-family housing starts projected to drop 6.2% year-over-year through the first three quarters of 2026, limiting supply. Construction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}