Northwest Arkansas, week of Oct 12, 2026

• The 30-year fixed averaged 7.40% in Freddie Mac's survey this week, unchanged from last week and 113 bp higher than a year ago.
• The 10-year Treasury closed the week at 5.09%, down 15 bp on the week; the 10-year sat 0.35 points above the 2-year.
• Commercial real estate loans on U.S. bank books stood at $3.16 trillion in the Oct 14 reading, up 3.9% from a year earlier.
• Bentonville issued 100 permits carrying $6.0M in printed valuation; the largest was a residential building permit at 2445 N Hughmount Rd ($935,742).
• Official data out this week: Inflation (Wed).
• 6 land-use meetings on the public calendar (Bella Vista, Bentonville, Fayetteville, Rogers, Siloam Springs) carried 54 agenda items.

Every sentence above is a fixed template filled with computed values; no figure is typed by hand. Market commentary, not advice.

Mortgage rates are Freddie Mac's Thursday survey; Treasury and curve are the week's last daily close, compared with the prior week's last close. bp = basis points (0.01%).

100 issued · $6.0M printed valuation

By our sector tag: residential 51, other 47, retail 2

City of Bentonville permits-issued reports (public record). Valuation is as printed by the city. Other cities' permit records aren't in yet; Census counts by city are in the monthly reports.

Projects heard

• Fayetteville — City park with three turf fields at 2600 W Judge Cummings Rd · Oct 12
• Fayetteville — 23,700 sq ft medical clinic SW of I-49 & Stephen Carr Memorial Blvd · Oct 12
• Siloam Springs — Hwy 412 E rezone A-1 to C-2 Roadway Commercial · Oct 13
• Siloam Springs — 10,398 sq ft gym at Camp Siloam, 3600 S Lincoln St · Oct 13
• Fayetteville — 3.92 ac on W Van Asche Dr rezone R-A to Community Services · Oct 13
• Fayetteville — 24.34 ac rezone to Community Services at Joyce & Old Missouri · Oct 13
• Fayetteville — City to buy ~42 ac at 4995 W Wedington Dr for $7.6M (bond project) · Oct 13
• Bentonville — $3.96M Walton Blvd & W Central Ave improvements bid · Oct 13
• Bentonville — $12.3M Townbranch sewer interceptor bid award · Oct 13
• Bentonville — Council vote on STEM U Campus master development agreement · Oct 13
• Rezone to T4.2 at 3006 SE J St goes to council (zoning conflict flagged) · Oct 13
• Bentonville — Walton Family Foundation grant up to $6.68M for "I" Street water main · Oct 13

No dated ARDOT releases for NWA this week.

• Inflation (CPI) · BLS · Oct 14

• Building permits, national (preliminary) · Census · Oct 20, 7:30 AM CT
• Arkansas jobs and unemployment · BLS · Oct 20, 9:00 AM CT