If you’ve been hoping mortgage rates might return to their pandemic-era lows, Fannie Mae’s latest forecast may be a reality check. The mortgage giant now expects rates to average 6.5% by the end of 2025 and dip only slightly to 6.

Mortgage rate expectations for the next two years have faltered again, leaving homebuyers with lingering questions.

The head of the federal government agency that oversees Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac wants the mortgage giants to consider accepting a homebuyer's cryptocurrency holdings in their criteria for buying mo