The Federal Reserve is set to issue another rate cut this week. Here's what could then happen to mortgage rates.

Over the past two and a half years, the Fed's interest rate hikes had an adverse effect on the housing market, helping to drive mortgage rates into unaffordable territory. Reducin

US mortgage rates rose again this week, the fourth-straight weekly increase. That rise in borrowing costs has undone some of the relief Americans felt this summer when mortgage rates fell in anticipation of a rate cut from the Federal Reserve as inflation improved.