PULSE 08/07/2025: Rates DROP, Data Doubts & Your Mid-Summer Reality Check

07/08/2025 24 min
PULSE 08/07/2025: Rates DROP, Data Doubts & Your Mid-Summer Reality Check

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📉 Mortgage rates just cracked their year-to-date floor, sliding into the mid-6 percents—even dipping to 6.45 % at a few lenders. In this week’s episode of The Pulse and Perspective, Pete D’Angelo unpacks why a weak jobs report, downward revisions, and a five-month manufacturing contraction lit a bond-market fire that’s cooling borrowing costs.But there’s a twist: the very data the Fed swears by is getting revised out from under it. Pete breaks down the “data dilemma,” what a 258 k downward jobs revision really means, and why shelter costs may keep inflation sticky until the Fed blinks. 🧐🏡 What you’ll learn:How today’s 6.6 %–6.7 % 30-year rates reshape affordability—and who should lock nowThe labor-market “cracks” that sparked the bond rally and what could yank rates back upWhy investors no longer trust first prints—and how that volatility trickles to housingTwo opportunities buyers have RIGHT NOW as inventory climbs 25 % YoYSmart seller strategies when 50 % of homes are closing below listStick around for Pete’s rapid-fire tips for buyers, sellers, and fellow mortgage pros—and a personal update as the D’Angelo family gets ready to welcome a new arrival! 👶🔔 Like, subscribe, and share to keep your circle on the pulse of the market.Watch this episode on Youtube!Interested in getting Pre-Approved? Submit your Pre-Approval inquiry here!Interested in your Refinance options? Submit your Refinance inquiry here!Follow me on: Facebook Instagram LinkedIn YouTube Peter D'Angelo | NMLS: 885309 | Branch Manager | Guaranteed Rate, Inc., NMLS [email protected]*All information, topics, discussion is my own personal opinion and insight, not reflective of Guaranteed Rate, Inc. May contain market information for informational purposes only, not to be used as financial advice.

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