From Zillow: Live, interactive mortgage rate charts

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Whatever your favorite real estate website is, you’ve got to admit, it’s amazing the kind of information that’s now available for free.

The newest toy to catch my eye is Zillow’s new interactive mortgage rate chart. There are lots of rate charts out there, but these, as I understand it, are made up of real offers made by real lenders.

Zillow’s Amanda Hoffman: ‘These charts are based on actual rates submitted by real borrowers and are updated with quotes submitted in real-time. Anyone can customize these charts based on length of time (day, week, month, or over the past three months), and filter by state, loan type, credit rating or down payment.’

The chart pictured is a mockup, the numbers aren’t real. I just ran the same scenario -- 30-year-fixed, credit rating from 680 to 850, down payment of 20% or higher, and here’s what I got:

National rate: 6.35%
California rate: 6.42%

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