Housing and Inflation

Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Housing and Inflation

A brief excerpt:

A few key points:

• The Fed has been raising rates to slow inflation. Since housing is a key transmission mechanism for Fed policy, the housing market has slowed dramatically as the Fed raised rates (and mortgage rates increased).

• The CPI report this morning contained some good news on inflation.

• The BLS reported “The index for shelter contributed over half of the monthly all items increase”.

• The BLS measure for shelter is seriously lagged and is likely behind the curve on the sharp slowdown in rents.
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Both CPI and core CPI were below expectations, and the year-over-year change is declining. Bond yields fell sharply this morning, and the 30-year mortgage rate dropped significantly to 6.67% from 7.25% yesterday (average top tier scenarios with zero points).
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My current view is inflation will ease quicker than the Fed currently expects.

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