Reports · Weekly · Oct 26 – Nov 1, 2026

Northwest Arkansas, week of Oct 26, 2026

30-year mortgage

7.24%

▼ 8 bp w/w

Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED · 2026-10-29

10-year Treasury, week close

4.94%

▼ 6 bp w/w

U.S. Treasury via FRED · 2026-10-30

CRE loans at U.S. banks

$3,155B

▲ 3.8% y/y

Fed H.8 via FRED · 2026-10-28

Bentonville permits issued

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city report runs through 2026-10-26

What happened

generated from the data

The 30-year fixed averaged 7.24% in Freddie Mac's survey this week, 8 bp below last week and 107 bp higher than a year ago.
The 10-year Treasury closed the week at 4.94%, down 6 bp on the week; the 10-year sat 0.38 points above the 2-year.
Commercial real estate loans on U.S. bank books stood at $3.15 trillion in the Oct 28 reading, up 3.8% from a year earlier.
Official data out this week: Building permits, revised with city detail (Tue); Fed rate decision (Wed); NWA metro jobs and unemployment (Wed).

Bentonville's October 2026 permits report isn't in yet; the city's reports run through 2026-10-26

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

Mortgage and 10-year Treasury, 26 weeks

Weekly, through Oct 29

Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey (weekly) and U.S. Treasury constant-maturity 10-year (daily), via FRED.

Data through 2026-10-29 · Free to reuse with the credit line. · Corrections

Rates this week

Rate	Level	Week	Year	As of
30-year fixed mortgageFreddie Mac PMMS	7.24%	-8 bp	+107 bp	Oct 29
15-year fixed mortgageFreddie Mac PMMS	6.60%	-8 bp	+119 bp	Oct 29
10-year TreasuryU.S. Treasury	4.94%	-6 bp		Oct 30
2-year TreasuryU.S. Treasury	4.56%	-13 bp		Oct 30
10-year minus 2-yearU.S. Treasury	+0.38 pts	+7 bp		Oct 30
SOFRNY Fed	3.95%	+3 bp		Oct 30

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%).

Bentonville permits

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Permits issued after 2026-10-26 arrive with the city's next monthly report.

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.