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Will higher interest rates choke off the housing recovery?

Housing will be affordable and a touch undervalued even by the end of 2016, despite the prospect of interest rates rising over that period. The upshot is that the recovery in the housing market will continue. But with price growth likely to level off at subdued levels by the standards of recent years, investors will have to pick their opportunities increasingly carefully.


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