Elliot Bogod, Forbes Real Estate Council

An increase in short-term interest rates will result in increased mortgage rates. This may be a statement of the obvious, but the potentially valuable implications for real estate investors may be less so.

The United Stated operates with a centralized banking system, and the single central bank, the brain that governs all the banks in the country, is known as the Federal Reserve System, usually abbreviated to the Federal Reserve or "the Fed." Read full article.