{"id":86188,"date":"2026-03-10T08:25:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T08:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=86188"},"modified":"2026-03-10T08:25:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T08:25:33","slug":"march-2026-mortgage-rates-near-6-15-year-at-5-50-as-iran-war-and-job-losses-shake-market-should-you-lock-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/10\/march-2026-mortgage-rates-near-6-15-year-at-5-50-as-iran-war-and-job-losses-shake-market-should-you-lock-in\/","title":{"rendered":"March 2026 mortgage rates near 6%, 15\u2011year at 5.50% as Iran war and job losses shake market \u2014 should you lock in?"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1XNZpb.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Mortgage Rates Oil Prices \u00a9GrokAI\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The answer used to be simple. Bad jobs data meant rate cuts were coming. Not anymore. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/march-2026-mortgage-rates-near-6-15-year-at-5-50-as-iran-war-and-job-losses-shake-market-should-you-lock-in\/ar-AA1XNtVt?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=2b0d48885ba1405e95c61818e06e4678&amp;ei=71\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The answer used to be simple. Bad jobs data meant rate cuts were coming. Not anymore. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-86188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cost-of-living-crisis"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Mortgage-Prisoner.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86189,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86188\/revisions\/86189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}