Housing Market Shift Coming
45sOpens with a bold prediction about a major housing market shift, tapping into viewers' financial anxieties and curiosity.
▶ Play Clip"Title accurately reflects the major shift discussed, though the 'since 2020' framing is slightly vague."
The housing market is undergoing a major shift in 2026, driven by geopolitical events and economic factors. Mortgage rates initially fell below 6% but rose again after the US-Iran conflict, and now a potential peace deal could lower rates. Housing affordability is at its lowest since the 1980s, with monthly payments consuming 33% of median income.
The housing market is shifting again due to unexpected reasons, with affordability at the lowest since the early 1980s.
For the first sustained period, it's cheaper to buy a new house than a used one.
Between February and June 2026, mortgage rates rose closer to 7%.
News that the US-Iran war could end may lead to lower mortgage rates.
Early 2026: mortgage rates fell below 6%, sellers listed more homes. Feb 28: US attacked Iran, bond yields rose, mortgage rates increased. March: rates rose again. April-June: rates approached 7%, inflation hit 4.2%.
On June 14, President Trump announced a deal with Iran, causing oil prices to fall, which impacts the housing market through bond yields.
The bond market: lending money to the US government via Treasury bonds, considered risk-free. When concerns about economy rise, bond yields increase, raising mortgage rates.
Banks compare mortgage lending to risk-free Treasury bonds. Higher Treasury yields force banks to raise mortgage rates.
If Treasury rates fall due to end of conflict, mortgage rates could drop, and the Fed might cut interest rates.
Inflation at 4.2% is the highest in years, making it hard for the Fed to cut rates. End of war could lower oil prices and inflation, enabling rate cuts.
Median house price: $347k in 2021 vs $429k in 2026. Mortgage rate: 2.96% vs 6.52%. Monthly payment: $1,165 vs $2,175. Income: $70k vs $80k. Payment-to-income ratio: 20% vs 33%.
House price up 24%, monthly payment up 87%, incomes up only 13% over 5 years.
Lowering prices hurts homeowners' equity; lowering mortgage rates could trigger bidding wars and raise prices again.
Builders are cutting prices on new homes to sell inventory, making new homes cheaper than used ones.
69% of mortgages have rates below 5%, 50% below 4%, discouraging sales and limiting supply.
The 10-year Treasury yield is the best predictor of mortgage rate direction.
The housing market is at an inflection point: a potential end to the US-Iran war could lower oil prices, inflation, and mortgage rates, but the outcome is uncertain. Monitoring the 10-year Treasury yield and Fed policy is key to predicting mortgage rate trends.
What was the median household income in the US in 2026?
Around $80,000 per year.
11:55
What percentage of monthly income did the median house payment consume in 2026?
Approximately 33%.
12:08
What was the inflation rate in the US as of mid-2026?
4.2%.
08:14
What percentage of US mortgages have a rate below 5%?
69%.
15:47
What percentage of US homeowners have a mortgage rate below 4%?
More than 50%.
15:52
How much did the median house price increase from 2021 to 2026?
From $347,000 to $429,300, an increase of about 24%.
10:18
How much did the monthly mortgage payment increase from 2021 to 2026?
From $1,165 to $2,175, an increase of about 87%.
10:40
What is the relationship between Treasury yields and mortgage rates?
When Treasury yields rise, banks raise mortgage rates because they can earn more from risk-free government bonds.
06:47
Why might lower mortgage rates lead to higher home prices?
Lower rates attract more buyers, leading to bidding wars that drive prices up.
14:02
What two factors does the video suggest to monitor for mortgage rate direction?
The 10-year Treasury yield and the Federal Reserve Bank's interest rate decisions.
16:19
Housing Cost Comparison 2021 vs 2026
Quantifies the dramatic increase in monthly payments (87%) vs income growth (13%), illustrating the affordability crisis.
10:18Income vs Housing Costs Gap
Highlights the core problem: housing costs have outpaced income growth significantly.
12:49Locked-In Homeowners
Explains why supply remains low: homeowners with sub-5% mortgages are reluctant to sell.
15:47Key Indicator: 10-Year Yield
Provides a practical takeaway for viewers to predict mortgage rate movements.
16:19[00:00] The housing market is about to shift
[00:01] again and this time it's for reasons
[00:03] that you might not expect. And this next
[00:05] shift comes at an interesting time
[00:07] because housing affordability is at the
[00:09] lowest level we have seen since the
[00:11] early 1980s. And for the first sustained
[00:13] period in history, it is cheaper to buy
[00:16] a new house than it is to buy a used
[00:18] house. And between February and June
[00:20] 2026, mortgage rates kept going higher,
[00:23] closer to the 7% mark. Again, everybody
[00:25] said that lower mortgage rates would fix
[00:27] the housing market, but they never came.
[00:29] But now with the news that the United
[00:31] States and Iran war could be coming to
[00:32] an end, mortgage rates might be coming
[00:34] down. So whether you own a house or
[00:36] you're thinking about buying a house,
[00:37] this video is for you. Let me start by
[00:39] diagramming what happened to the housing
[00:41] market in 2026. That way we're all on
[00:43] the same page. In the beginning part of
[00:45] 2026, what we saw is that mortgage rates
[00:48] finally began to fall in the United
[00:50] States. And the reason why the fell was
[00:51] because there was more calm in the
[00:53] economy, which brought bond rates down.
[00:55] I'll explain what that means in just a
[00:57] minute. But all you need to understand
[00:59] is that in the beginning part of 2026,
[01:01] two things happened. We saw mortgage
[01:03] rates finally fall to below 6% a year
[01:07] for the first time in a while and
[01:09] sellers started listing their houses
[01:13] again. So we started to see more houses
[01:15] on the market as people started to feel
[01:17] more comfortable selling their houses.
[01:19] But then things changed on February
[01:21] 28th, 2026. The United States attacked
[01:24] Iran. there was more uncertainty about
[01:26] the economy and the dollar which caused
[01:28] bond yields to rise which in turn caused
[01:30] mortgage rates to rise again. So in
[01:32] March 2026 we saw mortgage rates go up
[01:36] again and now people started to get
[01:38] concerned about the economy and
[01:40] concerned about the housing market
[01:42] again. Then between April, May and June
[01:44] things continued to get worse as
[01:46] mortgage rates started to get closer to
[01:48] that 7% mark a year while inflation also
[01:52] went up. Inflation now is at about 4.2%
[01:57] while getting a mortgage rate is closer
[02:00] to that 7% mark. And this is where
[02:03] people started to get concerned that if
[02:04] the cost of living keeps going up,
[02:06] mortgage rates are going up, how are
[02:08] people going to continue buying houses
[02:10] again when President Trump is promising
[02:12] lower mortgage rates? But then things in
[02:13] the housing market changed again on June
[02:15] 14th because that was when President
[02:17] Trump announced that the United States
[02:19] and Iran have come to a deal. And
[02:21] immediately oil prices fell, which
[02:24] translates directly to the housing
[02:27] market. Now, you might be wondering,
[02:29] what do oil prices and this war in the
[02:31] Middle East have anything to do with the
[02:33] housing market? And the reason why was
[02:35] what I've been hinting at for a few
[02:37] minutes in this video, which is the bond
[02:39] market. And what the bond market is is
[02:42] [snorts] you can go and lend money to
[02:44] the United States government. And when
[02:46] you do that, you're buying what's called
[02:47] a bond. So the United States government
[02:50] works like this. The government collects
[02:53] tax dollars and then they go out and
[02:55] spend money. Where do they spend money?
[02:57] They spend things like on health care.
[02:59] They spend money on military. They spend
[03:01] money on infrastructure. Well, the
[03:03] government spends a lot more money than
[03:05] what they generate from taxes. So they
[03:08] need to go out and borrow more money.
[03:11] Now this money that they borrow is
[03:13] something that you can now lend money
[03:15] into. This is what these bonds are. is
[03:17] called a treasury bond. So you can lend
[03:19] money to the United States government so
[03:21] they can continue funding their
[03:22] spending. And you might say, well, why
[03:24] would I lend money to the United States
[03:25] government? The reason why you would
[03:28] want to lend money to the United States
[03:30] government is so that they pay you back
[03:32] with interest. It is a loan made to the
[03:35] United States government. Well, this
[03:37] loan to the United States government,
[03:39] this Treasury bond is considered the
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[04:49] investing world, there's a very simple
[04:50] concept called risk versus reward. If
[04:54] something is a safe investment, like in
[04:56] this case, it is a risk-free investment,
[04:58] your reward should be lower. Meaning if
[05:02] you're going to lend money to the United
[05:04] States government, you're not going to
[05:05] get a huge rate of return because it's
[05:07] not considered a very risky investment.
[05:09] It's not a risky investment. So your
[05:11] returns are low. So that's how this
[05:13] system works. And the reason why this
[05:15] relates to the housing market is because
[05:18] when there's concerns about the economy,
[05:21] when there's concerns about oil prices,
[05:23] when there's concerns about inflation,
[05:25] do you know what happens? People get
[05:27] scared about lending money to the
[05:29] government. So what happens is these
[05:31] yields, meaning these treasury rates, go
[05:34] up. The government has to pay you a
[05:36] higher interest rate to continue lending
[05:39] money to the government because they
[05:40] know people are concerned about the
[05:42] economy. They're concerned about the
[05:44] dollar. They're concerned about
[05:46] something about the United States. And
[05:48] so when they get concerned, these
[05:49] interest rates go up. And this then
[05:52] impacts the housing market directly
[05:54] because over here in this office is your
[05:58] bank. And what your bank says is we're
[06:01] trying to decide what we want to charge
[06:04] you for your 30-year mortgage. And we're
[06:06] going to compare our different
[06:07] investment options. We can take this
[06:09] money that we have and we can lend it to
[06:11] you for a mortgage or we can take this
[06:14] money and lend it over here to the
[06:16] United States government. Well, who do
[06:18] you think is going to pay a higher rate
[06:20] of interest? The person that is a more
[06:23] risky investment. And remember what I
[06:25] said just a minute ago. The United
[06:26] States government is a riskfree
[06:29] investment.
[06:30] Meaning the United States government is
[06:32] more likely to pay back their bills than
[06:33] you are because the government can just
[06:35] raise taxes. The government can work
[06:37] with our central bank to print money.
[06:39] You can't. So the government is a less
[06:42] risky investment than you, which means
[06:44] you're going to have to pay a higher
[06:45] rate of interest. Now, here's where
[06:47] things start to get interesting. When
[06:49] there's concerns about the economy,
[06:51] people are buying less of these bonds,
[06:53] meaning the government has to raise
[06:55] interest rates. If the government is
[06:57] raising interest rates, now the bank is
[06:59] going to say, "hm, I would have charged
[07:01] you 6% for this mortgage, but now the
[07:03] government is paying a higher rate of
[07:05] interest. So, I'm going to have to
[07:06] charge you 6.75%
[07:08] in interest on your mortgage." So, as
[07:10] there's concerns about the economy, as
[07:12] there's concerns about a war, as there's
[07:14] concerns about oil prices, these bond
[07:16] yields go up, which then causes banks to
[07:18] charge you a higher rate on your
[07:21] mortgage. And this is where a lot of
[07:22] people in the real estate space are now
[07:24] watching this deal because they want to
[07:26] know what is this going to do with these
[07:29] Treasury rates? Because if these
[07:31] Treasury rates fall drastically, that
[07:33] could then cause mortgage rates to also
[07:35] fall. And it can also separately give
[07:38] the Federal Reserve Bank, our central
[07:40] bank, the ability to potentially not
[07:42] have to keep interest rates higher for
[07:44] longer because what the Federal Reserve
[07:47] Bank does is they want to manage the
[07:49] economy and inflation. And we know that
[07:51] President Trump wants lower interest
[07:53] rates. Well, he also just appointed the
[07:55] new chairman at the Federal Reserve
[07:57] Bank, which is our central bank. and the
[07:58] Federal Reserve Bank gets to make that
[08:00] decision of whether to raise or cut
[08:02] interest rates, but they have to take a
[08:03] look at inflation and the economy. Well,
[08:07] when the Federal Reserve Bank cuts
[08:08] interest rates, they're generally doing
[08:10] that to stimulate the economy, but that
[08:13] can make the inflation problem worse.
[08:14] Well, let's take a look at what happened
[08:16] here. Inflation is now at 4.2%.
[08:20] This is the highest level that we have
[08:22] seen in years. And so now when you get
[08:24] the report that inflation is higher,
[08:26] it's much harder for the Federal Reserve
[08:28] Bank to cut interest rates because that
[08:30] could make the inflation problem even
[08:32] worse. So a lot of people were thinking
[08:33] that now because of this conflict in the
[08:35] Middle East, the Federal Reserve Bank
[08:37] won't be able to cut interest rates,
[08:38] they might have to actually raise
[08:40] interest rates, which would make your
[08:41] mortgage rate more expensive. But
[08:44] [snorts] now what people are wondering
[08:45] is because this conflict in the Middle
[08:48] East might be over, oil prices might be
[08:50] falling, the inflation rate might also
[08:53] fall drastically. And if we see the
[08:55] inflation rate fall drastically, which
[08:56] is what President Trump said would
[08:58] happen, if that does actually happen,
[09:01] which we have to see now, the Federal
[09:03] Reserve Bank might be able to actually
[09:05] cut interest rates instead of raising
[09:08] interest rates. Because up until here,
[09:09] before this deal was made, most people
[09:12] in Wall Street were saying the Fed won't
[09:14] be able to cut interest rates in 2026.
[09:16] They're not even going to be able to
[09:18] keep interest rates where they are.
[09:19] They're going to be forced to raise
[09:21] interest rates as a way to cool this
[09:23] inflation problem down. Those higher
[09:26] interest rates would then translate to
[09:27] higher mortgage rates, and you can start
[09:28] to see how that would be a problem for
[09:30] the housing market. But if this
[09:32] inflation rate comes down, that means
[09:34] that the Federal Reserve Bank can also
[09:36] potentially cut interest rates depending
[09:39] on what happens in the economy. And this
[09:41] is where now people in the real estate
[09:43] space are getting very excited because
[09:44] now they're saying, okay, these bond
[09:46] yields are falling. If these bond yields
[09:48] fall and things calm down in the
[09:50] economy, inflation will also fall. We
[09:52] could also then see lower interest rates
[09:53] by the Fed, which also then translate to
[09:56] lower interest rates from your bank,
[09:58] which means it's cheaper to refinance,
[10:00] cheaper to get a mortgage. The housing
[10:02] market will boom again. That's what
[10:04] people are hoping for. We will see what
[10:06] ultimately happens. But the reason why
[10:08] this is so important that the reason why
[10:09] you really want to understand this is
[10:11] because the housing market has gone
[10:12] through a big transition over the last
[10:15] few years. Let me wipe this down and
[10:16] show you exactly what I mean. If you
[10:18] wanted to buy this median house in the
[10:19] United States in 2021, 5 years ago, it
[10:21] would have cost you $347,000.
[10:24] Then, if you put 20% down and finance
[10:26] the other 80% with a 30-year mortgage,
[10:29] your mortgage rate might have been
[10:30] something like 2.96%, which means your
[10:33] monthly mortgage payment on this house
[10:35] would be something like $1,165
[10:40] a month. Now, take a look at how things
[10:41] changed over the last 5 years. That same
[10:43] house today would be costing you
[10:45] something like $429,300
[10:48] and you're not going to get a 2.96%
[10:50] mortgage. Now, you might be paying
[10:52] something like 6.52%
[10:55] on that exact same mortgage. And if you
[10:57] put 20% down and finance the rest, that
[10:59] means your monthly mortgage payment has
[11:01] jumped up to about $2,175
[11:04] a month on that exact same house because
[11:06] not only are you borrowing more dollars,
[11:08] but you have to pay a higher interest
[11:10] rate to borrow those dollars. But we're
[11:12] still not done yet. Now, for simplicity,
[11:14] I'm just going to ignore the fact that
[11:15] as you're buying a more expensive house,
[11:17] you also have more expensive property
[11:19] taxes and housing insurance costs have
[11:21] skyrocketed faster than the prices of
[11:23] pretty much everything else in our
[11:24] economy. So, yeah, not only do you have
[11:26] a higher monthly mortgage payment, you
[11:28] have higher property taxes and higher
[11:29] insurance payments, making it a much
[11:31] more expensive thing to own this house,
[11:32] but I want to really take a look at how
[11:34] much these expenses have changed
[11:36] relative to people's incomes. Back in
[11:39] 2021, the median household income in the
[11:41] United States was around $70,000 a year.
[11:44] Which means if you bought this median
[11:45] house, it would be about 20%
[11:49] of your monthly income. Fast forward to
[11:52] 2026 and now the median household income
[11:55] has jumped up to around $80,000, which
[11:58] sounds good. People are making more
[11:59] money. But then you take a look at the
[12:00] fact that the median house payment is
[12:04] now approximately
[12:06] 33%
[12:08] of your actual income. Which means not
[12:11] only are people making more money, but
[12:12] now you have to pay more money to be
[12:14] able to afford that same house. This is
[12:16] where the real affordability problem can
[12:19] be seen. It's that yes, prices have gone
[12:21] up, but relative to incomes, prices have
[12:24] gone up, mortgage rates have gone up
[12:26] faster [snorts] than people's incomes.
[12:28] And to really compare apples to apples,
[12:29] what we can see here, if we look at just
[12:31] these numbers, is that the price to buy
[12:33] this house has gone up by around 24%.
[12:37] But your monthly mortgage payment has
[12:39] gone up by around 87%
[12:42] while incomes in the United States have
[12:44] gone up over the same 5 years by around
[12:48] 13%.
[12:49] That's the problem. incomes are not
[12:51] keeping up with the big growth in
[12:53] housing costs and cost to buy the house
[12:56] which is why housing affordability has
[12:58] fallen so much. This is where people are
[13:00] looking to the solution. Well, how do we
[13:02] fix this housing market? And you can
[13:04] either bring housing prices down which
[13:07] would then be a problem for everybody
[13:08] that bought a house in the last few
[13:10] years because people don't have a ton of
[13:12] equity in their houses and in that case
[13:14] now you're going to have a lot of people
[13:15] that are underwater in their houses. So
[13:17] yes, cheaper houses would help people
[13:19] that want to buy a house, but it would
[13:20] hurt the people that own a house that
[13:23] are relying on that equity. Number two
[13:25] is you can see these mortgage payments
[13:27] fall. And the idea is if you have a
[13:29] lower mortgage rate, that's going to
[13:31] allow you to buy this house and have a
[13:33] cheaper monthly mortgage payment, which
[13:35] is good. But it has also a double-edged
[13:38] sword problem, too. Because on the flip
[13:40] side, if mortgage rates do fall,
[13:42] hypothetically, if they go from 6.5% to
[13:45] [snorts] 4%. Yes, if you bought a house
[13:48] for $429,000, it's going to be cheaper
[13:51] because your monthly mortgage payment
[13:52] would be less. If you own a house, you
[13:55] could refinance and save money on your
[13:57] monthly mortgage payment. But there's
[13:59] one problem. What happens now if more
[14:02] buyers enter the market because they
[14:04] say, "Oh, mortgage rates are falling. I
[14:06] want to take advantage of these cheaper
[14:08] mortgage rates." Finally, I've been
[14:09] waiting to buy a house for years. So,
[14:10] let me go out and buy a house and take
[14:12] advantage of these cheaper mortgage
[14:13] rates. If that starts to happen and you
[14:15] have more buyers on the market more than
[14:17] the new number of houses hitting the
[14:18] market, well, now you have more buyers
[14:20] than sellers, which means that these
[14:22] buyers have to now fight against each
[14:24] other to buy these limited supply of
[14:25] houses. Well, how are the buyers fight
[14:27] against each other? Through bidding
[14:29] wars. And now, if we start to have more
[14:31] bidding wars, that could drive the
[14:33] prices of housing up again. So, this is
[14:36] where it gets very tricky to help save
[14:38] the housing market because if you have
[14:40] housing prices fall because a bunch of
[14:42] houses hit the market, well, now you're
[14:44] going to have a lot of people
[14:44] underwater. That has its own problems.
[14:46] If you have mortgage rates drop
[14:48] drastically, well, now people will be
[14:50] able to buy a house for a cheaper
[14:52] mortgage rate, but that could then also
[14:54] drive up housing prices, making the
[14:56] inflation problem worse. That's why it
[14:58] is a very tricky thing to do, and it's
[15:00] not a very simple process to just do one
[15:03] thing and fix the housing market. And
[15:05] you can see some of these concerns in
[15:06] the housing market through what builders
[15:08] are doing. Because in 2026, what we're
[15:10] seeing is that again, buying a new house
[15:12] is actually cheaper than buying a used
[15:15] house, which is not something we have
[15:16] seen in history for an extended period
[15:18] of time, but we're seeing it happen
[15:20] today because builders are getting
[15:22] desperate. They've built these houses
[15:23] over the last number of months or years,
[15:25] and in order to get them to want to have
[15:27] you buy the house, they need to give you
[15:29] incentives. And one of those incentives
[15:31] is cutting the price because they need
[15:33] to get these houses off their books. And
[15:34] then on the flip side, if we take a look
[15:36] at homeowners, a lot of homeowners are
[15:38] still saying, "I don't want to sell my
[15:39] house because I'd have to get rid of my
[15:41] cheap mortgage rate and then get a
[15:43] higher mortgage rate if I were to sell
[15:44] and buy a new house." 69% of mortgages
[15:47] in America have less than a 5% mortgage
[15:50] rate, and more than 50% of homeowners in
[15:52] America have a mortgage rate below 4%.
[15:55] This is making a lot of homeowners feel
[15:57] locked in and not interested in selling
[15:59] their houses because they don't want to
[16:01] have to give up their cheap mortgages.
[16:02] But that in turn also makes buying the
[16:04] house a little bit tricky because you
[16:06] still have a low supply of houses for
[16:07] sale because builders are confused if
[16:09] they should build houses depending on
[16:11] where the economy is going and sellers
[16:13] are confused as to if they should even
[16:14] sell their house. So, this is where
[16:16] again, if you want to get an idea of
[16:17] where the housing market is going,
[16:19] specifically the mortgage market, the
[16:20] thing that you can pay attention to to
[16:22] stay ahead of your bank is the 10-year
[16:25] yield. The 10-year Treasury yield is
[16:27] going to tell you whether mortgage rates
[16:29] are going to be falling or rising.
[16:30] Because as these Treasury yields go up
[16:32] or down, mortgage rates follow. And
[16:35] depending of what happens to the 10-year
[16:36] yield along with inflation, that will
[16:39] give you some guidance as to what the
[16:40] Federal Reserve Bank is going to do on
[16:42] interest rates. And that can also give
[16:44] you guidance as to where mortgage rates
[16:46] are going to go because that 10-year
[16:47] yield coupled with what the Federal
[16:50] Reserve Bank does is going to give you
[16:52] where your mortgage rate is going. And
[16:54] that will help you get an idea of where
[16:57] the housing market is going as well. So,
[16:59] if you're thinking about buying a house
[17:00] or you own a house and you've been
[17:01] thinking about refinancing, these two
[17:03] factors, the 10-year yield along with
[17:05] the Federal Reserve Bank rate are going
[17:07] to help give you that indication as to
[17:09] where the mortgage market is going. So,
[17:11] we talked about in this video is that
[17:12] the housing market is going through
[17:14] another inflection point because we have
[17:16] been seeing the lowest home
[17:17] affordability in multiple decades. At
[17:20] the same time, buying a new house has
[17:22] been cheaper than buying a used house.
[17:24] While people have been concerned about
[17:26] mortgage rates going up again, but now
[17:28] we're starting to see another shift
[17:29] happen because of the recent news that
[17:31] the war in the Middle East could be
[17:32] over. And with that news, we've seen oil
[17:34] prices fall. We've also seen bond yields
[17:36] fall. bond yields specifically to the
[17:38] United States government called
[17:40] treasuries. And the reason why that
[17:42] matters is because as treasuries fall,
[17:44] that gives banks the ability to charge
[17:46] people a lower mortgage rate. And so
[17:48] now, as people have been watching the
[17:51] mortgage market for the last number of
[17:52] years, they thought that we were going
[17:54] to see lower mortgage rates in 2026.
[17:56] Well, mortgage rates actually went up,
[17:58] not down, because of the conflict in the
[18:01] Middle East. And now people are hoping
[18:02] that if this conflict is completely
[18:04] over, mortgage rates will be able to
[18:06] fall again. And the second part of why
[18:09] this matters has to do with the Federal
[18:10] Reserve Bank because the Federal Reserve
[18:13] Bank sets what's called interest rates.
[18:15] But these are not interest rates that
[18:16] you pay on your mortgage. These are the
[18:17] interest rates that banks charge each
[18:19] other. So it's the cost that banks have
[18:21] to pay to borrow money. And as these
[18:23] interest rates by the Federal Reserve
[18:24] Bank fall, that can also make getting a
[18:26] mortgage cheaper. Well, when the Federal
[18:28] Reserve Bank sets these interest rates,
[18:30] they have to take a look at the
[18:31] inflation rate and the general economy.
[18:33] And because of the conflict in the
[18:35] Middle East, inflation has been going up
[18:37] significantly. And because inflation is
[18:40] now at a multi-year high, there's been a
[18:42] lot of talk that the Federal Reserve
[18:43] Bank might have to raise interest rates
[18:45] instead of cutting interest rates in
[18:47] 2026. Well, if the Fed starts raising
[18:50] interest rates, that would make getting
[18:51] a mortgage even more expensive. But now
[18:54] the idea is and the thought is if this
[18:57] war is over, oil prices will fall. If
[19:00] oil prices fall, the inflation rate will
[19:02] fall and the Fed might not have to raise
[19:04] interest rates. They might be able to
[19:06] actually cut interest rates. Again, a
[19:09] lot of uncertainty. But this is where
[19:10] now people are hoping in the real estate
[19:12] space, people are hoping that because
[19:14] the war in the Middle East is over, bond
[19:16] yields are falling. That can drive
[19:17] mortgage rates are lower. Because the
[19:19] war in the Middle East is over, oil
[19:20] rates will fall, which will make
[19:22] inflation rate fall, which means that
[19:24] the Fed could also cut interest rates,
[19:25] which could lead to lower mortgage
[19:26] rates. This is what people in the
[19:28] housing market space are hoping for.
[19:30] What is actually going to happen? Well,
[19:32] only time will tell. But that's where,
[19:33] again, if you want to get an indication
[19:35] as to where the housing market is going
[19:37] to go, you need to understand what moves
[19:40] mortgage rates. And the two biggest
[19:42] factors that move mortgage rates is the
[19:44] 10-year Treasury yield and the Federal
[19:46] Reserve Bank. And if you study those two
[19:48] things, you will have a better
[19:50] understanding of where the mortgage
[19:52] market is going than your mortgage
[19:54] banker. If you got value out of this
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[20:03] financial education. Thank you. The
[20:05] United States is about to borrow $2
[20:06] trillion to keep our economy running. It
[20:09] sounds great at first because it's going
[20:11] to stimulate our economy, but anytime
[20:13] the government spends money it doesn't
[20:15] have, somebody has to pay [music] the
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