Weekly mortgage rates stayed basically unchanged this week. The average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rose one basis point to 6.85% in the week ending July 30, according to rates provided to NerdWallet by Zillow. A basis point is one one-hundredth of a percentage point.
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