Reports · Weekly · Oct 19 – Oct 25, 2026

Northwest Arkansas, week of Oct 19, 2026

30-year mortgage

7.32%

▼ 8 bp w/w

Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED · 2026-10-22

10-year Treasury, week close

5.00%

▼ 9 bp w/w

U.S. Treasury via FRED · 2026-10-23

CRE loans at U.S. banks

$3,151B

▲ 3.6% y/y

Fed H.8 via FRED · 2026-10-21

Bentonville permits issued

101

$12.0M printed valuation · 2026-10-25

What happened

generated from the data

The 30-year fixed averaged 7.32% in Freddie Mac's survey this week, 8 bp below last week and 113 bp higher than a year ago.
The 10-year Treasury closed the week at 5.00%, down 9 bp on the week; the 10-year sat 0.31 points above the 2-year.
Commercial real estate loans on U.S. bank books stood at $3.15 trillion in the Oct 21 reading, up 3.7% from a year earlier.
Bentonville issued 101 permits carrying $12.0M in printed valuation; the largest was a commercial building permit at 3105 N College Ave ($3.4M).
Official data out this week: Building permits, national (Tue); Arkansas jobs and unemployment (Tue).
2 land-use meetings on the public calendar (Bentonville, Fayetteville) carried 27 agenda items.

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 Oct 22

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

Data through 2026-10-22 · Free to reuse with the credit line. · Corrections

Rates this week

Rate	Level	Week	Year	As of
30-year fixed mortgageFreddie Mac PMMS	7.32%	-8 bp	+113 bp	Oct 22
15-year fixed mortgageFreddie Mac PMMS	6.68%	-3 bp	+124 bp	Oct 22
10-year TreasuryU.S. Treasury	5.00%	-9 bp		Oct 23
2-year TreasuryU.S. Treasury	4.69%	-5 bp		Oct 23
10-year minus 2-yearU.S. Treasury	+0.31 pts	-4 bp		Oct 23
SOFRNY Fed	3.92%	+4 bp		Oct 23

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

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101 issued · $12.0M printed valuation

By our sector tag: residential 55, other 44, multifamily 1, retail 1

Largest by valuation	Valuation	Issued
3105 N College Avecommercial building permit	$3.4M	Oct 21
2989 N Whistle Post Drresidential building permit	$524,987	Oct 21
2084 E Little Crew Drresidential building permit	$448,910	Oct 20
911 N Leverett Averesidential building permit	$426,410	Oct 21
275 S Sang Ave A4residential building permit	$405,750	Oct 21

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.