Reports · Weekly · Sep 14 – Sep 20, 2026

Northwest Arkansas, week of Sep 14, 2026

30-year mortgage

6.95%

▲ 19 bp w/w

Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED · 2026-09-17

10-year Treasury, week close

5.01%

▲ 5 bp w/w

U.S. Treasury via FRED · 2026-09-18

CRE loans at U.S. banks

$3,135B

▲ 3.5% y/y

Fed H.8 via FRED · 2026-09-16

Bentonville permits issued

[NEEDS DATA]

city report runs through 2026-08-31

What happened

generated from the data

The 30-year fixed averaged 6.95% in Freddie Mac's survey this week, 19 bp above last week and 69 bp higher than a year ago.
The 10-year Treasury closed the week at 5.01%, up 5 bp on the week; the 10-year sat 0.25 points above the 2-year.
Commercial real estate loans on U.S. bank books stood at $3.13 trillion in the Sep 16 reading, up 3.5% from a year earlier.
Official data out this week: Fed rate decision (Wed); Building permits, national (Thu); Arkansas jobs and unemployment (Fri).

[NEEDS DATA: Bentonville's September 2026 permits report isn't in yet; the city's reports run through 2026-08-31]

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 Sep 17

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

Data through 2026-09-17 · Free to reuse with the credit line.

Rates this week

Rate	Level	Week	Year	As of
30-year fixed mortgageFreddie Mac PMMS	6.95%	+19 bp	+69 bp	Sep 17
15-year fixed mortgageFreddie Mac PMMS	6.26%	+17 bp	+85 bp	Sep 17
10-year TreasuryU.S. Treasury	5.01%	+5 bp		Sep 18
2-year TreasuryU.S. Treasury	4.76%	+13 bp		Sep 18
10-year minus 2-yearU.S. Treasury	+0.25 pts	-8 bp		Sep 18
SOFRNY Fed	3.85%	+23 bp		Sep 18

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

map

[NEEDS DATA: permits issued after 2026-08-31 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.

On the public calendar

all hearings

No land-use meetings in the agenda feed for this week (the agenda feed was last updated 2026-09-10).

Road news

road money

No dated ARDOT releases for NWA this week.

Bentonville permits issued, by week

Whole weeks, starting Monday

City of Bentonville permits-issued reports (public record).

Data through 2026-08-24 · Free to reuse with the credit line.

Official data out this week

data calendar

Fed rate decision (FOMC) with projections · Federal Reserve · Sep 16
Building permits, national (preliminary) · Census · Sep 17
Arkansas jobs and unemployment · BLS · Sep 18

Due next week

Building permits, revised with city detail · Census · Sep 24, 7:00 AM CT

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