Unbeknownst to buyers lining the sidewalks outside of frenzied open homes this spring, the Pandemic Housing Growth was previously in its ultimate inning. In March, Fortune released a pair of articles titled “The housing industry enters uncharted waters“ and “An economic shock just hit the housing sector“ arguing just that: The purple-sizzling housing market would speedily change in the face of spiked home loan fees, which experienced jumped from 3.2{515baef3fee8ea94d67a98a2b336e0215adf67d225b0e21a4f5c9b13e8fbd502} in January to about 4{515baef3fee8ea94d67a98a2b336e0215adf67d225b0e21a4f5c9b13e8fbd502} by late March. Not only did bigger property finance loan prices aid to lead to the Pandemic Housing Increase fizzle out, but it was changed by what Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell now calls a…