Higher Mortgage Rates Were Supposed to Cool Home Prices. How ‘Rate Lock-In Effect’ Got in the Way
When the Federal Reserve began aggressively raising interest rates in 2022, many analysts expected home prices to fall. But they didn’t. Instead, they soared. A new analysis from the Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS) at Harvard University helps explain why—and the answer is summed up in mortgage rate locks. From the start of 2021…
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