Redfin: Tariff Fears Drive Up Mortgage Rates, Throwing 2025 Off-Track
Could Trump’s proposed tariffs be the reason for the recent rise in mortgage rates? Could this slow the housing market and cause affordability to get worse? What happens if rates stay higher for longer and more homebuyers get kicked out of the market? We’re talking to Redfin’s Chen Zhao about how tariffs will affect you and the surprising findings from a new homeowner survey foreshadowing something none of us wanted to see about housing inventory.
Tariffs could change many things: they could increase construction costs for houses, lead to higher inflation and higher mortgage rates, or put…
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