Fed boosts interest rates: big yawn? 
Real estate loan rates to remain low, experts predict
By Janis Mara, Tuesday, December 13, 2005.Federal Reserve head Alan Greenspan and his colleagues hiked the federal funds rate to 4.25 percent today, the 13th increase since June 2004. With all eyes on the Fed, the burning question arises: So what?
Real estate industry professionals have been wringing their hands ever since the Fed began raising the federal funds rate in 2004. They feared that as the overnight bank rate went up, so would interest rates on 30-year fixed mortgages.
But interest rates on such mortgages still hover around 6.6 percent – not a high rate at all. What gives?
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