Will Increasing Mortgage Rates Impact Home Prices?
Posted by Patrick Keller on Friday, January 20, 2017 at 1:30 PM
By Patrick Keller / January 20, 2017
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There are some who are calling for a decrease in home prices should mortgage interest rates begin to rise rapidly. Intuitively, this makes sense as the cost of a home is determined by the price of the home, plus the cost of financing that home. If mortgage interest rates increase, fewer people will be able to buy, and logic says prices will fall if demand decreases.
However, history shows us that this has not been the case the last four times mortgage interest rates dramatically increased.
Here is a graph showing what actually happened:
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