Higher Rents Are Coming If Interest Rates Don’t Budge

Published on February 18, 2025

Coming into 2025, hopes for an increase in housing construction were pinned on lower borrowing costs. But with longer-term interest rates remaining stubbornly elevated and the Federal Reserve showing no urgency to ease policy, higher rents and home prices will be needed to drive an increase in production.

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