Mortgage rates and home prices are skyrocketing worldwide. That is not good news for housing affordability.
The graph below shows the relationship between the one-year change in US 30-year mortgage rates and the one-year change in the 'Housing Affordability Index'. Roughly speaking, the change in mortgage rates explains about 40 percent of the change in the affordability of a home for sale in the United States.
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