In recent decades, falling mortgage interest rates have allowed home buyers to borrow more relative to their incomes. But that support for house prices has now been exhausted. Indeed, our long-run interest rate view is consistent with a moderate fall in the average loan-to-income ratio. That suggests house prices are unlikely to sustain a growth rate of above 3% per-year for the foreseeable future.
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