How Do Bonds Affect Mortgage Rates?

  • When you're referring to Bonds and Mortgage Rates, you're referring to Mortgage Bonds/Mortgage Backed Securities
  • Mortgage Backed Securities are mortgages packaged together into Groups/Bundles of Securities, and then sold in the Bond Market
  • Since the Financial Crisis of 2008, the Federal Reserve has been buying Mortgage Backed Securities. Here's a chart illustrating the Federal Reserve's current position of Mortgage Backed Securities: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MBS10Y
  • As Bond Prices Rise, Interest Rates Fall, here's a link to the 30 Yr Mortgage Rate: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MORTGAGE30US
  • What do you see when you look at the 2 different charts?

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