Mortgage Rates Reverse Course, Drop To 21-Month Lows

Erasing a one week bump and back to a 21-month low, the average rate for a conforming 30-year mortgage has dropped from 3.66 percent to 3.59 percent, 73 basis points below the 4.32 percent average rate at the same time last year.

Averaging 6.7 percent over the past twenty years, the 30-year rate hit all-time low of 3.31 percent in November 2012 and a three-year high of 4.58 percent in August 2013.