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Does shopping mortgage rates hurt my credit score?
The short answer
Not meaningfully. Credit models treat all mortgage inquiries within a single shopping window — 45 days for most, 14 for the most conservative — as one inquiry. Keep your quotes inside two weeks and shopping five lenders costs your score the same as shopping one.
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