Sacramento's unsteady housing market could do without higher mortgage rates. But that's what it's getting. Mortgage rates jumped to an average 6.46 percent for 30-year, fixed-rate loans, up from 6.04 percent last week, mortgage giant Freddie Mac said Thursday. A separate survey by personal finance Web site Bankrate.com pegged current rates at 6.77 percent, up nearly a half point to the highest ...
