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🗓️ 20 September 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the Real Estate Strategies podcast, where we host in-depth conversations on everything |
0:07.8 | real estate with the industry's biggest movers and shakers. |
0:11.3 | I'm your host, Ken McElroy, joined by my co-host, DeNeil. |
0:15.4 | Let's get right into this episode. |
0:18.0 | Hello and welcome to the Ken McElroy show. |
0:24.0 | I'm DeNeil here with Matt actually. |
0:32.3 | He is our guest for today. He is a friend of Ken and mine and he is a loan specialist and he's the one that does all of our residential mortgages. So welcome, Matt. Thank you very much. But we want to jump |
0:38.1 | into rates today because I think everyone's questions are what's happening with rates, what can |
0:45.3 | they expect, but then also you and I this summer had talked about some new loan products coming |
0:50.2 | to market, which are very interesting that I want to get to as well, because a lot of people |
0:54.4 | listening could probably benefit from them. Absolutely. So the Fed and interest rates, what the hell's |
0:59.6 | going on? Well, you know, Wednesday, there's another Fed meeting. They're talking about increasing the |
1:05.6 | Fed rate, again, 75 or 100 basis points. So, you know, what that means to the consumer is things are going to cost more. |
1:13.3 | They're trying to stop the push of, you know, the home prices continuously inflating. |
1:17.9 | So the only way to do that is to increase the Fed rate, which doesn't always mean that the mortgage rates are going to increase. |
1:24.6 | But, you know, that's where the common trend's been. |
1:27.0 | The last three weekends, the mortgage- that's where the common trend's been. The last three |
1:27.6 | weekends, the mortgage-backed securities have just been getting crushed. And for the consumer, |
1:33.3 | that means they just keep increasing, you know, and they're not stopping the bleeding. So, you know, |
1:38.3 | the Fed's got to step in. The banks, you know, are obviously going to keep raising the rates until |
1:42.7 | we can get to that threshold where, you know, they're not going to keep increasing the home prices. Well, it's interesting |
1:48.3 | because from what I've understood and noticed is that just because the Fed increases the rate by a certain |
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