We all want to have our own dream home but we all know that this is may be the biggest investment of many of us in our life. So we need to take our decision wisely. If you are willing to get a mortgage loan to buy your dream home then the first thing that you will want to check is the mortgage rates that you will be paying. The mortgage rate of the present week is pretty low and also decreased compared to the previous week.

The interest rate of 30% year fixed rate mortgage was 5.07% in the last week but it is now 5.04 this week. For 15 year fixed rate mortgage, the mortgage rate was 4.5% and it is now 4.47%; the one year ARM was 4.64% last week and it is now 4.58% but only the 5 year ARM remains the same as the last week. It was 4.51% last week and it remains the same this week.

So you can see that the loan rates are really pretty low now. So it is a very good time to lock the mortgage rate. You never know when the interest rate of the mortgage loans increased shall. So it will be a wise thing to lock the rates when it is really low. So if you were planning to buy your dream home and waiting for the mortgage rates to decreased, it is the time for you to buy your dream home.