The Fed has raised interest rates to fight inflation in the past. A new Intel analysis illuminates the data behind the “rate lock” of the early 1980s and how long it took home sales to eventually recover.
Source: Inman News
What the early ’80s inflation crisis reveals about today’s home market
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