Mortgage lending in Lee County
1,784 mortgages were originated in Lee County, Mississippi, in 2025.
30-year fixed, this week
6.71%
Freddie Mac's survey average for the week of September 3, 2026 — a year earlier it was 6.56%, and the past year ranged 5.98–6.71%. The figures below are from 2025 filings and do not move with the market. Rate history
- Loans originated
- 1,784
- Median rate
- 6.750%
- Median lender fees
- $4,767
The going rate is the federal "average prime offer rate" for a comparable loan; 0.5 means half a percentage point above it.
- Median loan amount
- $155,000
- Above the going rate (spread over APOR)
- 0.300
- Paid discount points
- 30.4%
- Received lender credits
- 12.8%
- Purchases / refinances
- 47% / 33.5%
- Conventional / FHA / VA
- 74.9% / 16.1% / 7.2%
Figures are medians of loans actually originated in 2025, as reported under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act. They describe what borrowers received, not what you would be offered: HMDA contains no credit scores, so these numbers cannot be read as pricing for any individual. Lender fees are reported for 60.8% of loans here — see methodology.
Loan limits here in 2026
- Conforming limit
- $832,750
- FHA limit
- $541,287
- Median home price
- $286,000
- That home, 20% down
- $228,800
A median-priced home with 20% down leaves $603,950 of room under the conforming limit, so the ceiling rarely binds on an ordinary purchase.
Borrow more than $832,750 and the loan becomes jumbo — outside agency rules, priced by each lender on its own terms. How limits work
Median price is HUD's figure for the 2026 limit calculation, not a live market quote.
Who lent here
Lenders with at least 50 loans in Lee County, ranked by volume.
| Lender | Loans | Median fees | Median rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Renasant Bank | 320 | $4,608 | 6.875% |
| Cadence Bank | 259 | $4,221 | 7.360% |
| BankPlus | 156 | $3,317 | 6.377% |
| Community Bank of Mississippi | 129 | — | 7.250% |
| Guaranty Bank and Trust Company | 83 | $2,520 | 7.125% |
| Rocket Mortgage, LLC | 78 | $5,758 | 6.500% |
| Regions Bank | 71 | — | 5.688% |
What lenders charged here
Lender fees on a $155,000 loan, based on what was actually charged in Lee County — not a rule of thumb.
From 1,085 loans where fees were reported. This is what the lender charges — sections A and B of a Loan Estimate. Title, appraisal, taxes and the escrow deposit your lender collects up front for future tax and insurance bills are extra and not in these figures. Compare two offers