Basic Info. US Discount Rate is at 4.50%, compared to 4.50% the previous market day and 5.50% last year. This is higher than the long term average of 2.23%.
The $100,000 Loophole.
With a larger below-market loan, the $100,000 loophole can save you from unwanted tax results. To qualify for this loophole, all outstanding loans between you and the borrower must aggregate to $100,000 or less.
There are three AFR tiers based on the repayment term of a family loan: (1) Short-term rates, for loans with a repayment term up to three years. (2) Mid-term rates, for loans with a repayment term between three and nine years. (3) Long-term rates, for loans with a repayment term greater than nine years.
After 14 months of stagnancy, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) lowered the federal funds rate three times in 2024, ending the year with a target range of 4.25% to 4.50%, the lowest since February 2023.
Bank Prime Loan Rate (I:BPLRNM)
Bank Prime Loan Rate is at 7.65%, compared to 7.81% last month and 8.50% last year.
What was the highest prime rate? The highest prime rate was 21.5%, reached on December 19, 1980.
The current Bank of America, N.A. prime rate is 7.50% (rate effective as of December 19, 2024).
Additionally, the current national average 15-year fixed mortgage rate decreased 1 basis point from 6.12% to 6.11%. The current national average 5-year ARM mortgage rate is up 4 basis points from 7.17% to 7.21%.
After maintaining historically low rates for nearly two years, the Federal Reserve began a series of rate hikes in early 2022, with the rate moving from 0.33 percent in April 2022 to 5.33 percent in August 2023.
The moves dropped the federal funds rate — the rate banks charge to lend each other money — from a range of 5.25% to 5.50% in September to 4.25% to 4.50% in December.
Fannie Mae: Rates Will Average 6.4% in 2025 and 6.1% in 2026. The December Housing Forecast from Fannie Mae puts the average 30-year fixed rate at 6.6% in the beginning of 2025, declining to 6.1% in the first quarter of 2026.
The forecasts are conditioned on a path for the cash rate broadly in line with expectations derived from surveys of professional economists and financial market pricing; the cash rate is assumed to remain around its current level of 4.35 per cent until the middle of 2024 before declining to around 3.2 per cent by the ...
Locking in early can help you get what you were budgeting for from the start. As long as you close before your rate lock expires, any increase in rates won't affect you. The ideal time to lock your mortgage rate is when interest rates are at their lowest, but this is hard to predict — even for the experts.
For 2021, you can forgive up to $15,000 per borrower ($30,000 if your spouse joins in the gift) without paying gift taxes or using any of your lifetime exemption. (These amounts are the same as in 2020.) But you will still have interest income in the year of forgiveness. Forgive (don't forget).
If there is no binding written contract that substantially sets forth the terms under which the sale or exchange is ultimately consummated, the 3-month rate is the lowest applicable Federal rate (based on the appropriate compounding period) in effect during the 3-month period ending with the month in which the sale or ...
There is no minimum interest rate you are required to charge, but you will be liable for taxes if you decide to give a below market interest loan to the IRS. This is because as a lender, you are expected to charge market interest and if you don't do so, you are in effect liable for the interest foregone on the loan.