Mortgage News Daily tracks national rates

Mortgage News Daily’s daily rate index showed a 6.65% national average for a conventional 30-year fixed mortgage and 6.10% for a 15-year fixed loan in its latest update, dated May 15, 2026. The website says its index is updated daily and is driven by “real-time changes in actual lender rate sheets.” For homebuyers and refinance borrowers, the page functions as a market-day snapshot rather than a weekly survey. Mortgage News Daily also publishes daily changes for jumbo, FHA, VA and adjustable-rate products on the same index page. ### What exactly is Mortgage News Daily tracking? Mortgage News Daily says its MND Rate Index is a daily measure of mortgage pricing based on lender rate sheets. On its rate-index page, the company says the index is designed to show “day-to-day movement” in mortgage rates and cites timeliness and accuracy as the main advantages of that approach. The site’s mortgage-rates pages also display a broader menu of products beyond the conventional 30-year and 15-year benchmarks. (mortgagenewsdaily.com) On the latest page view, Mortgage News Daily listed 30-year FHA at 6.17%, 30-year VA at 6.19%, 30-year jumbo at 6.69% and a 7/6 SOFR ARM at 6.49%. ### What did the latest daily reading show? The latest Mortgage News Daily index available on May 17 was labeled “Last Updated: 5/15/26.” That entry showed the conventional 30-year fixed rate at 6.65%, up 0.13 percentage point from the prior day, and the 15-year fixed rate at 6.10%, up 0.06 point. (mortgagenewsdaily.com) The historical table on the same page showed the prior day, May 14, at 6.52% for the 30-year fixed and 6.04% for the 15-year fixed. (mortgagenewsdaily.com) The table also showed May 13 readings of 6.57% and 6.07%, respectively, underscoring that the site posts changes each market day rather than once a week. ### How is this different from Freddie Mac’s weekly survey? Freddie Mac said its Primary Mortgage Market Survey showed the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaging 6.36% as of May 14, 2026, and the 15-year fixed averaging 5.71%. (mortgagenewsdaily.com) Freddie Mac says that survey is released weekly on Thursdays and reflects rates offered from the prior Thursday through Wednesday. Mortgage News Daily’s figures are higher than Freddie Mac’s latest weekly averages, but the two series are not presented as the same product. (mortgagenewsdaily.com) Mortgage News Daily describes its index as a daily read on lender rate sheets, while Freddie Mac describes its series as a weekly average based on its survey window. ### Where would a borrower actually see these numbers? Mortgage News Daily places its daily rate index on a public mortgage-rates page and links it with comparison tools for local lenders and state-by-state rate pages. (freddiemac.com) The site’s broader rates hub also showed the same headline conventional rates — 6.65% for the 30-year fixed and 6.10% for the 15-year fixed — alongside market indicators including the 10-year Treasury yield and UMBS pricing. (mortgagenewsdaily.com) The compare-rates page was live for May 16 and May 17 scenarios, indicating that users can move from the national benchmark to borrower-specific shopping inputs such as down payment, loan size and credit-score range. Mortgage News Daily says that tool is available through its website and mobile app. ### What comes next on the site? Mortgage News Daily says the MND Rate Index is updated daily, and the latest visible entry was stamped May 15, 2026. (mortgagenewsdaily.com) The next market-day change should appear on the same Daily Rate Index page, where the company also maintains recent historical readings for 30-year and 15-year conventional loans. (mortgagenewsdaily.com 1) (mortgagenewsdaily.com 2)