Reports · Weekly · Sep 21 – Sep 27, 2026

Northwest Arkansas, week of Sep 21, 2026

30-year mortgage

7.03%

▲ 8 bp w/w

Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED · 2026-09-24

10-year Treasury, week close

5.17%

▲ 16 bp w/w

U.S. Treasury via FRED · 2026-09-25

CRE loans at U.S. banks

$3,138B

▲ 3.5% y/y

Fed H.8 via FRED · 2026-09-23

Bentonville permits issued

[NEEDS DATA]

city report runs through 2026-08-31

What happened

generated from the data

The 30-year fixed averaged 7.03% in Freddie Mac's survey this week, 8 bp above last week and 73 bp higher than a year ago.
The 10-year Treasury closed the week at 5.17%, up 16 bp on the week; the 10-year sat 0.36 points above the 2-year.
Commercial real estate loans on U.S. bank books stood at $3.14 trillion in the Sep 23 reading, up 3.5% from a year earlier.
Official data out this week: Building permits, revised with city detail (Thu).

[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 24

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

Data through 2026-09-24 · Free to reuse with the credit line.

Rates this week

Rate	Level	Week	Year	As of
30-year fixed mortgageFreddie Mac PMMS	7.03%	+8 bp	+73 bp	Sep 24
15-year fixed mortgageFreddie Mac PMMS	6.42%	+16 bp	+93 bp	Sep 24
10-year TreasuryU.S. Treasury	5.17%	+16 bp		Sep 25
2-year TreasuryU.S. Treasury	4.81%	+5 bp		Sep 25
10-year minus 2-yearU.S. Treasury	+0.36 pts	+11 bp		Sep 25
SOFRNY Fed	3.90%	+5 bp		Sep 25

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

Building permits, revised with city detail · Census · Sep 24

Due next week

NWA metro jobs and unemployment · BLS · Sep 30, 9:00 AM CT
National jobs report · BLS · Oct 2, 7:30 AM CT

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