Refi Rates Jump Up Nearly a Quarter of Percent After Fed Cut. Today's Rates, Dec. 23, 2024

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Higher mortgage rates aren't good news for if you're considering refinancing your home loan.

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Katherine Watt

Katherine Watt is a CNET Money writer focusing on mortgages, home equity and banking. She previously wrote about personal finance for NextAdvisor. Based in New York, Katherine graduated summa cum laude from Colgate University with a bachelor's degree in English literature.

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Laura Michelle Davis

Laura Michelle Davis

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Laura is a professional nitpicker and good-humored troubleshooter with over 10 years of experience in print and digital publishing. Before becoming an editor with CNET, she worked as an English teacher, Spanish medical interpreter, copy editor and proofreader. She is a fearless but flexible defender of both grammar and weightlifting, and firmly believes that technology should serve the people. Her first computer was a Macintosh Plus.

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Today's average mortgage rates on Dec. 23, 2024, compared with one week ago. We use rate data collected by Bankrate as reported by lenders across the US.

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Katherine Watt is a CNET Money writer focusing on mortgages, home equity and banking. She previously wrote about personal finance for NextAdvisor. Based in New York, Katherine graduated summa cum laude from Colgate University with a bachelor's degree in English literature.

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