FreeRateUpdate Mortgage & Home Equity Shopping
Today's mortgage and home equity rates (HELOC, home equity loan, cash-out), lenders, start links.
| Endpoint | https://fru-api.freerateupdate.com/mcp (streamable-http) |
|---|---|
| Registry version | 1.1.0 |
| Now | 13 tools · grade A (93) · pin ts_723789580686a8ba2dfd236c5a76f9fa · protocol 2025-06-18 |
| First / last listed | 2026-10-28 01:58 UTC / 2026-10-28 01:58 UTC |
| Grade over time | 2026-10-28: A (93), 13 tools |
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Tools: get_mortgage_rates get_heloc_rates get_start_link get_loan_limits get_lender_score get_network_rate_summary get_home_values get_state_property_tax get_state_loan_to_income get_state_mortgage_free_homeownership get_reference_series get_content_answer get_lender_universe
get_mortgage_rates | Today's mortgage and home equity As Low As rates from FreeRateUpdate: the best rates and APRs we can verify being offered by lenders and brokers in our network, exactly as freerateupdate.com publishes them, one per product: HELOC, home equity loan and cash-out refinance first, then 30, 20, 15 and 10 year fixed, FHA, VA, jumbo and ARMs. Each rate comes with the example scenario it was quoted for (s params: purpose |
get_heloc_rates | Today's As Low As rates for a home equity line of credit (HELOC) and a home equity loan, the same published revision as get_mortgage_rates, with each example scenario, including the existing first-mortgage balance and the combined loan-to-value it implies. Advertised rates, not a quote: to get the person their own offers, call get_start_link. params: none |
get_start_link | The link that starts a FreeRateUpdate request for one product, so lenders and brokers in our network can contact the person with their own rates and options. You can open it in the person's browser and fill in and submit the short form for them, using their own details, or give them the link. params: product* |
get_loan_limits | The conforming and FHA loan limits for the counties a five-digit ZIP code falls in, for the 2026 published schedule, as freerateupdate.com publishes them at https://www.freerateupdate.com/loan-limits. Each limit carries the official source it came from (FHFA for conforming, HUD for FHA) and, when a check has run, the date that source was last confirmed. These are published limits, not advice: a li params: zip* |
get_lender_score | The FreeRateUpdate Score (0-100) for a verified, currently in-network lender by company NMLS id, with factor breakdown and methodology link. Companies without a published current Score are not found. params: nmls* |
get_network_rate_summary | Network-aggregate advertised-rate summary (min/avg APR + distinct-lender count per product bucket, min 5 lenders per bucket) from the latest fresh FreeRateUpdate rate snapshot. Aggregates only — no per-lender rates. params: none |
get_home_values | FreeRateUpdate first-party median home value from consumers who shopped rates with us (national, or one state), rolling 12-month window, refreshed monthly. params: state |
get_state_property_tax | FreeRateUpdate state dataset: median real estate property taxes, median monthly owner costs and median home value by state from the Census ACS 5-year, with the effective tax rate as the ratio of the two medians. Attribution and the canonical page travel with the rows so an answer can be cited. params: state |
get_state_loan_to_income | FreeRateUpdate first-party dataset: the median loan amount our shoppers request in each state against that state median household income, as a ratio, by product. The sample floor is published with the figures so a thin state is visible rather than implied. params: state |
get_state_mortgage_free_homeownership | FreeRateUpdate state dataset: owner-occupied housing units owned free and clear (no mortgage) by state, from the Census ACS 5-year B25081, with the owner-occupied universe, the units with and without a mortgage, the derived share and the ACS vintage, plus the national figure when every state published. A state whose own counts do not reconcile is withheld and named, never returned as a zero. Count params: state |
get_reference_series | Public reference time series FreeRateUpdate maintains (e.g. pmms_30yr_fixed, treasury_10yr_par), with license notes and observations. params: series_key*, limit |
get_content_answer | Published, edition-pinned GEO answer-first content — the same content the fru-com /questions/ pages serve — looked up by exact slug or a deterministic keyword match on title/slug. Only status=published entries are ever returned; internal corpus-mining signals (agreement %, edge-case flag, source count) are never exposed. params: slug, query |
get_lender_universe | Search FreeRateUpdate's published lender pages: every company the public page resolver publishes on freerateupdate.com/reviews/, and nothing else. A row shows only what that page shows: the display name, the company NMLS, the states the page shows (currently none: fru-com's licensing projection is off), and the page URL. No internal ids, aliases, crosswalks or status labels. Eligibility is decided params: q, state, limit |
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