Housing Boom Fades World-Wide as Interest Rates Climb
Rising interest rates are slamming the brakes on a global housing boom that spread far beyond the U.S. during the pandemic, heaping extra pressure on central banks as they try to tame inflation without triggering deep downturns in their economies.
From Europe to Asia to Latin America, residential real-estate markets are coming off the boil, and in some cases seeing home values fall, as central banks jack up borrowing costs to bring consumer-price growth to heel.