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SAM Rate Index — Live Mortgage Rate Ranges by Program
Note-rate and APR ranges for FHA, VA, conventional, USDA, jumbo, DSCR, Non-QM, ITIN and home equity programs, refreshed twice each business day from Simply Approved Mortgages wholesale pricing. Ranges, not quotes.
The Simply Approved Mortgages rate index is an internal illustrative reference compiled from published market data with a stated as-of date. It is provided for education and general market context, not as an offer. It is not a quote, lock, or commitment to lend, and individual pricing depends on the full loan file.
- ✓The SAM Rate Index publishes note-rate and APR **ranges** by loan program — not a single "today's rate."
- ✓Refreshed twice each business day (about 10 AM and 2 PM Eastern) from Simply Approved Mortgages wholesale pricing.
- ✓Ranges are educational context, not a quote, lock, offer, or commitment to lend. Your Loan Estimate is the only binding figure.
- ✓Each row shows the exact time it was priced.
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Complete the short request and a Simply Approved Mortgages Loan Officer sends back a written summary built from your own numbers: estimated payment breakdown, estimated cash to close, the loan structures that fit your file, and what documentation the file will need.
- Estimated monthly payment with taxes and insurance
- Estimated cash to close for your scenario
- Loan options your profile may fit
- Document checklist for your file
Takes about 3 minutes · Summary shown on screen and emailed to you
Illustration only, generated from the information you enter. Not a rate quote, lock, loan estimate, pre-qualification, offer, approval, or commitment to lend. Figures are subject to credit, income, asset and property review and full lender underwriting; binding numbers appear on your Loan Estimate.
Scenario summary
- Purchase price entered
- $412,000
- Down payment entered
- $20,600
- Estimated loan amount
- $391,400
- Estimated cash to close
- $14,300
- Programs reviewed
- 4
Sample layout with example figures — your own numbers replace these. Simply Approved Mortgages LLC · NMLS #2620881 · Equal Housing Opportunity.
SAM Rate Index · live
Live ratesLive pricing. Rates are retrieved from our pricing provider when you run a scenario.Today's SAM Rate Index by Loan Program
Loading the latest pricing snapshot. Updated twice each business day, about 10 AM and 2 PM Eastern. Ranges span the Buy Down, Best Value, Closest to Par and Largest Credit options for each program's benchmark scenario.
| Program | Note rate range | APR range | Benchmark credit score | Priced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conventional 30-year fixed | … | — | — | — |
| FHA 30-year fixed | … | — | — | — |
| VA 30-year fixed | … | — | — | — |
| USDA 30-year fixed | … | — | — | — |
| Jumbo 30-year fixed | … | — | — | — |
| Non-QM bank statement | … | — | — | — |
| ITIN 30-year fixed | … | — | — | — |
| DSCR investor 30-year fixed | … | — | — | — |
| Second mortgage (fixed) | … | — | — | — |
| HELOC (variable) | … | — | — | — |
Illustrative benchmark scenarios (Florida property, 30-day lock; see each program's assumptions on the rate cards). Not a quote, lock, offer, or commitment to lend; binding figures appear on your Loan Estimate. Your rate depends on credit, LTV, occupancy, property type and loan program. HELOC rates are variable and can change after closing. Simply Approved Mortgages LLC · NMLS# 2620881 · Equal Housing Opportunity.
Pricing snapshot
Live ratesLive pricing. Rates are retrieved from our pricing provider when you run a scenario.SAM Rate Index — Today's Options at a Glance
Four real options from today's wholesale pricing for one documented sample scenario per program — no form needed. Updated twice each business day, about 10 AM and 2 PM Eastern. Your own rate depends on your credit, down payment, property, state and lock date.
The SAM Rate Index is our live, twice-daily snapshot of the mortgage note rate and APR ranges returned by Simply Approved Mortgages wholesale pricing snapshots — broken out by loan product, FICO band, and state. It exists because most "today's rate" pages quote a single hero number that no real borrower actually gets. Rates in the real world are a distribution.
What this is: the range of note rates and APRs our wholesale pricing engine returns for a fixed benchmark scenario per program, refreshed about 10 AM and 2 PM Eastern each business day, shown next to Freddie Mac PMMS national averages for context. What this isn't: a quote, a lock, an offer, or a commitment to lend. Your specific pricing depends on LTV, DTI, occupancy, property type, lock period, and underwriter conditions, and appears on your Loan Estimate.
Methodology
Each program is priced on a fixed benchmark scenario through our wholesale pricing engine twice each business day. The index shows the range between the four standard options returned for that scenario (Buy Down the Rate, Best Value, Closest to Par, Largest Lender Credit). A failed pricing run never replaces the last good snapshot, and snapshots older than a business day are labelled as not current.
- Source data: internal wholesale broker rate sheets from lenders active on Simply Approved Mortgages files (aggregated, no lender identified).
- Sanity check: weekly Freddie Mac PMMS; daily Optimal Blue OBMMI; MBA Weekly Applications Survey.
- APR calculation: assumes our standard 1.50% lender-paid compensation plus program-required MI (FHA MIP) or funding fee (VA), typical title/recording costs. Discount points are shown as a separate column and are not double-counted.
- Refresh cadence: twice each business day, about 10 AM and 2 PM Eastern. The exact priced time appears on the table above.
- What we don't publish: individual lock records, borrower-identifying data, or any program whose latest pricing run failed or expired.
Want these numbers built around your file?
A short request is all it takes to get a written scenario summary back from a Simply Approved Mortgages Loan Officer. Binding figures appear on your Loan Estimate.
How to read a rate range
A range like 6.250% – 6.625% means the benchmark scenario priced inside that band, depending on whether you pay points or take a lender credit. Being priced above the range doesn't mean you're being overcharged — you may have a compensating factor (higher LTV, investment property, condo, non-warrantable, cash-out, extended lock). Being priced below the range on a par-point option is unusual and worth cross-checking on a same-day Loan Estimate.
Compare your Loan Estimate to the index
Take your Loan Estimate's note rate and APR from page 1, find the matching product and FICO band above, and check whether you land inside the range. If you're well above and can't identify a compensating adjuster, get a second Loan Estimate the same day from another lender — that's the only apples-to-apples comparison. Learn how to read one on CFPB's Loan Estimate explainer.
The SAM Rate Index is educational context, not a quote, lock, offer, or commitment to lend. Binding rate, APR, and fee figures appear on your Loan Estimate. Simply Approved Mortgages LLC · NMLS# 2620881 · Equal Housing Opportunity. Not affiliated with FHA, VA, USDA, HUD, or FHFA.
Compare loan officer compensation on your mortgage quote
Loan officer compensation is part of the cost of a mortgage. On eligible residential loans, Simply Approved Mortgages generally uses 1.5% lender-paid compensation. Enter the compensation shown on another lender's Loan Estimate to see the difference in dollars.
Compensation difference on this illustration: $3,750.
How lower compensation can help you
When less compensation is built into pricing, there can be room for a lower interest rate, which may lower your monthly payment.
Depending on the rate you choose, pricing can sometimes include a lender credit toward third-party closing costs, so you may bring less cash to closing.
A lower rate means a lower monthly payment, which can lower your debt-to-income ratio and may help you qualify for more home on the same income.
As a mortgage broker we compare pricing from wholesale lenders instead of offering a single bank’s retail pricing.
Tip: On page 2 of your Loan Estimate, look at Section A, "Origination Charges." If the lender pays the loan officer, that compensation usually does not appear there as its own line; it is built into the interest rate. That is why comparing the rate and any lender credits side by side matters.
Already have a Loan Estimate from another bank or broker? Share it with a Simply Approved Mortgages Loan Officer, who will compare the rate, fees and credits side by side with options we can arrange. No cost to request a review.
Illustration only — not a quote, lock, offer, or commitment to lend; binding figures appear on your Loan Estimate. Lender-paid compensation is paid by the lender, not directly by you, and is part of the loan's pricing, so the loan is not free of costs. A lower compensation figure does not by itself guarantee a lower rate or lower closing costs; individual results vary by credit, loan type, property and market conditions. Residential lending in FL and CO only. Simply Approved Mortgages LLC · NMLS #2620881 · Equal Housing Opportunity.
Today's rates
Live ratesLive pricing. Rates are retrieved from our pricing provider when you run a scenario.Real rates — your scenario, not a guess
Today's rate options below refresh twice each business day from our wholesale pricing engine; run your own scenario in the pricing tool. National survey averages below give you market context — they're not Simply Approved's pricing.
Our live pricing engine
See your real rate — for your scenario, in our pricing tool
Pull live, scenario-specific pricing from our wholesale pricing engine. Your binding rate and APR are confirmed on your Loan Estimate after a quick file review.
See My Live Rate →Pricing snapshot
Live ratesLive pricing. Rates are retrieved from our pricing provider when you run a scenario.Today's Mortgage Rate Options at a Glance
Four real options from today's wholesale pricing for one documented sample scenario per program — no form needed. Updated twice each business day, about 10 AM and 2 PM Eastern. Your own rate depends on your credit, down payment, property, state and lock date.
National market context
Freddie Mac PMMS — weekly U.S. averages
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PMMS figures shown above are Freddie Mac's national survey averages, published weekly by Freddie Mac (PMMS_history.csv) — they are not Simply Approved Mortgages' rates, not a quote, not a lock, and not an offer or commitment to lend. Your actual rate, APR, and payment depend on credit profile, loan program, occupancy, LTV, DTI, property type, lock period, and current market pricing at the time of lock. Your binding figures appear on your Loan Estimate. Simply Approved Mortgages LLC · NMLS# 2620881 · Equal Housing Opportunity.
Cost and payment tools
Run your payment, affordability, closing cost and refinance numbers
Monthly payment, affordability, closing costs, refinance break-even and early payoff, all on one screen. This page is not written for one state, so property tax, insurance and transfer or recording charges start at neutral placeholder assumptions rather than published averages — Transfer, documentary-stamp and recording charges are set by your state and county — enter your own figure, or open the state page for a sourced seed. Insurance and tax assumptions vary widely by state, county and property, so replace these starting values with quotes for your address. Every figure is an illustrative estimate, not a quote, lock, offer, approval, or commitment to lend.
Your inputs
Estimated result
- Down payment
- $20,000
- Loan amount
- $380,000
- Principal & interest
- $2,402
- Property tax
- $333/mo
- Homeowners insurance
- $167/mo
- Estimated total monthly
- $2,902/mo
Reference sources: Tax Foundation — property taxes paid as a percentage of owner-occupied housing value, NAIC — Homeowners Insurance Report, CFPB — Understanding your Loan Estimate.
Assumptions, methodology, and limitations
Principal and interest use the standard amortization formula on the loan amount you enter. This page does not target a single state, so the property tax and insurance fields start at neutral placeholder assumptions rather than published averages — replace them with figures for your own address, or open the matching state page for sourced seeds. Closing costs apply your state's transfer / documentary-stamp practice (0.00% of price used as the buyer-side seed) plus typical title, recording, appraisal, credit and prepaid escrow lines. Refinance break-even divides your entered costs by the monthly payment difference. Early payoff runs a month-by-month amortization with your extra principal.
These tools do not include mortgage insurance, funding or guarantee fees, HOA special assessments, flood or windstorm premiums, seller credits, lender credits, discount points, or county and municipal charges specific to your parcel. Statewide averages will not match any individual property. Figures are estimates only.
Illustrative only. Binding figures appear on your Loan Estimate, and terms vary by borrower, property, lender, program, and state.
Turn these estimates into real numbers
Send your scenario to a Simply Approved Mortgages Loan Officer and get a written summary back, or compare where rates sit today. Educational only — not a quote, lock, offer, approval, or commitment to lend.
SAM Rate Index — frequently asked questions
Answers to the most common SAM rate index questions, written by licensed loan officers.
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SAM is the Simply Approved Mortgages AI assistant. It answers general questions using the reviewed guides published on this site and links you to the primary government source. It is educational only — it does not quote a rate, payment, APR, approval or commitment to lend. A Simply Approved Mortgages Loan Officer reviews every scenario before any terms are confirmed.
Hi, I'm SAM — an AI assistant for Simply Approved Mortgages. I can explain loan programs, closing costs, DTI, down payments and which calculator or guide to use. I'm not a licensed loan officer, and nothing here is a quote, approval or commitment to lend.
Ask Sam AI provides general educational information only. It is an automated assistant, may be incomplete or out of date, and does not provide legal, tax or financial advice. Nothing it produces is a rate quote, APR, pre-approval, offer or commitment to lend. Never share a Social Security number, ITIN, date of birth, account number or password in chat. Simply Approved Mortgages LLC (NMLS #2620881) arranges residential mortgage loans in Florida and Colorado. Eligibility, terms, conditions and availability vary by borrower, property, lender, loan program and state, and all loans are subject to lender underwriting and approval. Equal Housing Opportunity.
Trusted government resources
These independent government resources can help you research mortgage programs, rates, and your rights before you apply.
Freddie Mac
Freddie Mac — Primary Mortgage Market Survey (PMMS)
FRED (St. Louis Fed)
FRED — 30-Year Fixed Rate Mortgage Average
CFPB
CFPB — Loan Estimate explainer
CFPB
CFPB — Explore Interest Rates
Simply Approved Mortgages is not affiliated with HUD, the CFPB, the FTC, the VA, or any other government agency. Links are provided for your independent verification.
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Alt-doc pricing for ITIN borrowers.
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Refinance break-even
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