Housing Market Decoded: Low interest rates were a blessing and a curse
Buyers might long for pandemic-era mortgage rates, but economist Matthew Gardner cautions that the "bad & the ugly" impacts outweighed the good ones.
April 24, 2023
As Chief Economist for Windermere, Matthew Gardner is responsible for analyzing and interpreting economic data and its impact on the real estate market on both a local and national level.
He chairs the Board of Trustees at the Washington Center for Real Estate Research at the University of Washington, sits on the Urban Land Institute's Technical Assistance Panel, and is an advisory board member for the Runstad Center for Real Estate Studies at the University of Washington where he also lectures in real estate forecasting.