{"id":1542,"date":"2015-01-23T21:42:14","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T21:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orangesand.com\/?p=1542"},"modified":"2015-01-23T21:42:14","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T21:42:14","slug":"heart-of-the-house-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/23\/heart-of-the-house-market\/","title":{"rendered":"HEART OF THE HOUSE MARKET &#8230;&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mortgage rates are largely determined by the interest rate on the 10-year U. S. Treasury bond.\u00a0 The rates are is on the average about 1.8% higher than the prevailing Treasury rate.\u00a0 The Treasury rate is influenced largely by the expected rate of inflation.\u00a0 The U.S. had low rates of inflation for the first 14 years of the 2000s.\u00a0 Real estate professionals who want to follow mortgage rate trends should keep an eye on the 10 year bond rate and the outlook for future inflation.\u00a0 The mortgage rates are likely to be SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 1.5 AND 2% MORE THAN THE CURRENT TREASURY RATE.\u00a0 This according to Dr. Dotzour, chief economist with the Real Estate Center at Texas A&amp;M U.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mortgage rates are largely determined by the interest rate on the 10-year U. S. Treasury bond.\u00a0 The rates are is on the average about 1.8% higher than the prevailing Treasury rate.\u00a0 The Treasury rate is influenced largely by the expected rate of inflation.\u00a0 The U.S. had low rates of inflation for the first 14 years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1542"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1544,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542\/revisions\/1544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}