Raymond Frenken, editorial manager of Investment Officer Luxembourg.
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In Flux: a bubbling housing market, Reifs and rising rates

Raymond Frenken, editorial manager of Investment Officer Luxembourg.

If there is one economic lesson my father, a construction engineer, taught me, it's that mortgage rates in Europe always follow what’s happening in the United States. When rates go up across the Atlantic, they’re bound to do the same in our part of the world. So when it comes to locking in a good mortgage rate, look west.

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