Economists’ 2025 housing market forecasts largely call for mortgage rates to stay above 6% next year
Home shoppers hoping for more attractive mortgage rates next year may be disappointed.
That’s the takeaway from several economists’ 2025 housing forecasts, most released over the past couple of weeks.
Most of the eight forecasts call for the average rate on a 30-year mortgage to remain above 6% next year, with some including an upper range as high as 6.8%.
That range would be largely in line with where rates have hovered this year. The average rate has gone as low as 6.08% in September — a 2-year low — and as high as 7.22% in May, according to mortgage buyer Freddie Mac. The average rate was 6.6% this week.
“Even by the end of next year it’s hard to see sub 6% mortgage rates,” said Mark Fleming, chief economist at First American, which predicts the average rate on a 30-year mortgage will range between 6% and 6.5% next year.
