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The Federal Reserve's first rate hike in three years, lifting its target range to 3.75%-4.00%, is forcing commercial real estate into refinancing at sharply higher costs, according to a U.S. Bank note dated September 16, 2026. Jeff Sica, chief executive of Circled Square Alternative Investments, described the fallout as a "primal scream from commercial real estate," warning that the gap between a 4% loan and a 7% loan adds roughly $600,000 a year in extra interest on a single commercial building. Sica said higher debt service costs will push landlords to raise rents, hitting apartment dwellers and small business tenants first, and warned of "a tremendous series of unintended consequences" that could create inflation "that people didn't even know existed." Commercial mortgages price off the long end of the curve, with the 10-year Treasury yield at 4.96% and the 30-year at 5.29% on September 21, 2026, up from 4.79% on the 10-year on September 1, according to Globest. The trillion-dollar refinancing figure cited in the headline came from the publication's editor's characterization of the segment and did not appear in Sica's quoted remarks.
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