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Contractors Fear a Rate Hike: "Then Everything Will Blow up Again"

Summary by Vísir
"If these tall gentlemen in black suits are going to freeze the market and thus the production of residential housing, then we know how this will end," says Vignir S. Halldórsson, a developer who fears that the Central Bank's Monetary Policy Committee will raise interest rates tomorrow. "Then everything will blow up again and there will be a ten percent increase in housing prices."
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"If these tall gentlemen in black suits are going to freeze the market and thus the production of residential housing, then we know how this will end," says Vignir S. Halldórsson, a developer who fears that the Central Bank's Monetary Policy Committee will raise interest rates tomorrow. "Then everything will blow up again and there will be a ten percent increase in housing prices."

·Reykjavík, Iceland
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Vísir broke the news in Reykjavík, Iceland on Tuesday, August 18, 2026.
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