{"schema":"hottub-news/story/v1","story":"st_nbifi6dsh4q4eyd6uceq","title":"How East Texas homebuyers can avoid higher mortgage rates","title_en":null,"outlets":1,"brief":null,"page":"https://hottub.news/stories/how-east-texas-homebuyers-can-avoid-higher-mortgage-rates-nbifi6dsh4","count":1,"items":[{"id":"n_nbifi6dsh4q4eyd6uceq","seq":341974,"kind":"article","title":"How East Texas homebuyers can avoid higher mortgage rates","url":"https://www.ketk.com/news/local-news/how-east-texas-homebuyers-can-avoid-higher-mortgage-rates","summary":"TYLER, Texas (KETK) - As mortgage rates reached over 7% for the first time since Jan. 2025 recently, KETK News caught up with a local realtor in Tyler to see what homebuyers can do to potentially bring their mortgage rates down. Local realtor Kevin Stansbury pointed towards inflation as a reason for why home mortgage [...]","published":"2026-09-28T03:43:36Z","seen":"2026-09-28T04:41:43Z","lang":"en","country":"US","source":{"id":"kite-ketk-com-0228b6","name":"ketk.com","domain":"ketk.com"},"via":"kite-ketk-com-0228b6","topics":["texas","local news","smith county","video"],"authors":["Michael Garcia"],"entities":[{"id":"Q2576428","name":"East Texas","type":"place"}],"image":"https://www.ketk.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/34/2026/09/0B50E7C5AAA6D93A40EF68E9B2631269.jpg?w=512","story":"st_nbifi6dsh4q4eyd6uceq","category":"economy-business","category_p":0.7799999713897705,"sentiment":"neutral","tone":0.09000000357627869,"political":0.11999999731779099}]}