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Housing and Interest Roller Coaster
This chart tracks the relationship between house prices and interest rates since 1987
Inflation Adjusted Home Price Index
Interest Rate (%)
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9/11
Global financial
crisis begins
.com crash
Great
recession
ends
COVID-19 hits
Interest rates
soon return to 0
Late 90's
Boom
Rates rise to
curb inflation
War starts in
Ukraine
Housing bubble peaks
and home prices fall
Clinton
iPhone launches
Gulf War
begins
Bank bailouts
H.W. Bush
W. Bush
Obama
Trump
Biden
Inflation hits
40-year high
SVB Collapses
Israel at war
Trump Elected
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