Considering a home purchase or a refinance of your current property? Here are the mortgage interest rates to know.

The average rate on 30-year fixed home loans climbed to 6.22% for the week ending Mar. 19, as the Iran conflict drove oil prices ever higher

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The average interest rate on a 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage rose to 6.09% APR, according to rates provided to NerdWallet by Zillow. This is two basis points higher than yesterday but one basis point lower than a week ago. (See our chart below for more specifics.) A basis point is one one-hundredth of a percentage point.

The conflict in Iran could push inflation as high as 3.5% in July, the Bank of England has said. That would be well above the central bank’s 2% target for the rate - which measures how fast prices are rising.

Mortgage rates shot higher last week, as the war with Iran stoked fears over inflation. That caused a major drop in refinance demand, but buyer demand improved.

Hundreds of mortgage deals pulled from market amid threat of triple interest rate rise - Conflict in the Middle East has scuppered hopes of cuts to the base rate