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Lock-in Effect: Below-3% Mortgages Fade

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Ultra-low mortgage rates below 3% during 2020–2022 created today’s housing market lock-in effect.

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Homeowners keep ultra-low loans because moving means paying much higher mortgage rates today.

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This lock-in helped push existing home sales nearly 25% below 2019 levels.

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Mortgages under 4% still represent about half of all outstanding loans.

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However, low-rate mortgages are slowly fading as homes sell and loans get repaid.

Daulton Ehlen

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