Luck refers to that which happens to a person beyond that person's control. This view incorporates phenomena that are chance happenings, a person's place of birth for example, but where there is no uncertainty involved, or where the uncertainty is irrelevant.
Average rates on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages have climbed in recent weeks by about a quarter-percentage point, from 3.75 percent to almost 4 percent â about a $600-a-year difference on a $350,000 mortgage. Several sources of data suggest that buyers are paying more attention to the threat of higher rates.
Mortgage rates ended 2016 at their highest levels since 2014, capping the end of a refinancing boom. Mortgage rates rose rapidly after the presidential election, to above 4.25 percent. They are expected to keep rising, but slowly, in 2017.