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Saturday, 01 April 2017 / Published in Blog, General, Housing Market, Investors, Local, Luxury, Mortgage, Real Estate, South Tampa, St Petersburg

Could rising mortgage rates be good for housing?

NEW YORK – The Federal Reserve is finally taking more action to raise its short-term rates. Last week, it voted to raise the Fed funds rate by 25 basis points. That is expected to add pressure to mortgage rates, too. Many housing analysts fear that rising mortgage rates could further impact home affordability and lead home buyers to pause.

However, Rick Sharga, executive vice president of Ten-X and former senior vice president at RealtyTrac, disagrees. He thinks the rise in mortgage rates could prove to be a good thing for the housing market.

He argues that it will cause buyers to get off the fence faster and move into the market sooner – before rates go any higher. He expects that to help increase home sales in 2017.

Sharga also believes higher rates will cause lenders to loosen some of the tight underwriting standards that have plagued the housing market the last few years and prevented many would-be borrowers from moving forward.

“This will happen partly just due to higher mortgage interest rates, which will provide a bit of a cushion for lenders to take on a little more risk,” Sharga writes in a recent column. “And higher rates will also drastically reduce the number of refinance loans being issued, which lenders will try to offset by doing more purchase loans.”

Sharga thinks the Fed’s recent 25-basis-point hike may not actually have a big an impact on mortgage rates.

“The 25-basis-point hike was well within the range that most industry analysts had expected, which means it’s possible that this hike won’t cause mortgage rates to rise significantly from current levels, which are already the highest they’ve been in years,” Sharga notes.

Source: “Why Rising Federal Funds Rate Might Be Good for the Housing Market,” HousingWire (March 16, 2017)

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