Mortgage rates expected to rise as government support phases out

If you are fence sitting about whether to buy that house, you may not want to wait too much longer: If government officials can be believed, the more than year-long federal support of mortgages, which brought rates to post World War II lows, is slated to end within the next couple of months.

Should this happen, mortgage rates are expected to climb. By how much, no one seems certain. Though fears are already being expressed by some, that any hefty increase in the 30-year fixed rate mortgage could cut any developing real estate market recovery off at the knees.

But forget the macro implications and let's keep to the micro ones: that would be you.