Most of the recent weakness in housing activity is due to the unusually bad weather rather than the lagged effects of last year’s rise in mortgage rates. While higher mortgage rates have clearly taken some steam out of the housing recovery, they won’t extinguish it altogether. Once the weather returns to seasonal norms, residential investment will resume adding to overall GDP growth.
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