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In this Real Estate News Brief for the week ending March 25th, 2023... the Fed’s latest rate hike, the impact of high rates on banks, and the top states for tenant migrations.   Hi, I'm Kathy Fettke and this is Real Estate News for Investors. If you like our podcast, please subscribe and leave us a review.   Economic News   We begin with economic news from this past week. The Federal Reserve hiked the short-term rate once again by a quarter point. The benchmark rate is now 4.75% to 5%. There had been speculation that we’d see a half point rate hike because inflation hasn’t been coming down fast enough, but the failure of Silicon Valley Bank forced the central bank to be more cautious. (1)   Fed Chief Jerome Powell said he was surprised at how quickly Silicon Valley Bank collapsed and even admitted that committee members considered a pause in rate hikes. Federal Reserve data shows that almost $100 billion were pulled from accounts during the week that ended March 15th. Most of that money came from small banks,