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by misja111 3330 days ago
It is also related to the height of the mortgage rate; higher rates means more people cannot afford to buy a house, so house prices go down.

With the current unprecedented low interest rate levels it is hard to imagine, but there was a time that mortgage rates were above 10%. And there is no fundamental reason why they couldn't go back to those levels one day.