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In this Real Estate News Brief for the week ending January 28th, 2022... the Fed’s rate hike plan, what investors are saying about 2022 challenges, and what buyers are doing to purchase a home more quickly. 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. All eyes were on the Fed for changes in monetary policy after the central bank’s two-day meeting. Worries about more aggressive action by the Fed to combat inflation didn’t seem to be evident. Fed Chief Jerome Powell said that committee members are “of a mind to raise the federal funds rate at the March meeting” if economic conditions are appropriate for doing so. Wall Street economists are expecting a rate hike in March, along with three others this year, to control inflation. It’s now running at an annual rate of about 7%, but Fed officials still believe it will settle back down as the year progresses and supply c