mortgage-rates-today-mcp
Mortgage rates today for AI assistants. Ask for this week's average 30-year or 15-year fixed rate and get the Freddie Mac number, the change from last week and a year ago, and what it means for a monthly payment.
This is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. It reads the Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey (PMMS) at call time. It needs no API key.
Tools
Every result has structured JSON, a one-paragraph summary, as_of, source (freddiemac.com/pmms), the data file URL and more (a page on mcpstamp.com). Results carry the Freddie Mac attribution.
What it knows that your model does not
- This week's rate. Freddie Mac publishes a new national average every Thursday at noon Eastern, so any number in a model's training data is out of date.
- The exact weekly history since 1971, for questions like "what was the rate when I bought in March 2021".
- Payment math tied to the current average, so the comparison with a year ago uses real numbers.
Install
Hosted (Claude.ai custom connector, ChatGPT developer mode)
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Claude Code
Claude Desktop
Claude Desktop adds remote servers under Settings, Connectors, Add custom connector. Paste the URL above.
Cursor
Add to ~/.cursor/mcp.json:
VS Code
Add to .vscode/mcp.json:
Local stdio (after npm release)
The npm package is not published yet. After it is, run it locally with Node 20 or newer:
Example prompts
- "What are mortgage rates today?"
- "What is the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate this week, and is it up or down?"
- "What was the 30-year mortgage rate in January 2021?"
- "Show me the monthly average 15-year rate since 2024."
- "What is the monthly payment on a $400,000 loan at today's rate, compared with a year ago?"
Data sources
Full list with fetch dates in DATA_SOURCES.md.
Limitations
- PMMS is a national weekly average for well-qualified conventional purchase borrowers with 20 percent down. It is not a quote. Your rate depends on credit, down payment, points, loan type, state and lender.
- No daily rates, no FHA, VA or jumbo series, and no ARM data after November 2022.
- The hosted server caches the file for up to an hour, so a new Thursday release can take up to an hour to appear.
- Payments exclude taxes, insurance, PMI and HOA dues.
More
More MCP servers that answer questions your assistant cannot answer alone are on mcpstamp.com.
Part of the Zovo MCP collection: https://mcp.zovo.one
Built by theluckystrike.
Development
License
MIT