For US folks, is right now a good time to buy a house? (lemmy.world)

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Since the election I've kinda buried my head in the sand to try and stay sane, so I'm not sure what projections are looking like for the real estate market. Unfortunately I need to move pretty ASAP and I'm having the worst luck with rentals.

So, anyone have any advice or an idea of the outlook in the next few months?

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[-] dingus@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

I'm honestly really surprised that your mortgage is about half the cost of renting. That has not been my experience in recent years at all. That's how things used to be, but in post 2020 times, monthly mortgage payments often seem to surpass rent payments in my area, making the whole thing kind of a hard pill to swallow. Idk. Maybe I was looking at things wrong. I'm not a real estate expert. I just know that buying my place increased my monthly bills a bit instead of decreasing them like that. It seemed that would have happened with any property I looked at.

[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Mortgage was always higher than rent where I live, in the past, because people were renting houses they bought a long time ago so even with the profit in there it just worked out that way. Then rents exploded here, and buying was cheaper but then prices of houses exploded and now renting is cheaper again.

[-] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

The caveat is that “circumstances were right” meant a sizable down payment among other things. Without the down payment, a mortgage would have approximated rent at the time. I was at the end of a lease though, and the jump to renew in a craphole apartment was enough to tip the scales. Bills are approximately the same, thankfully. I did take a hit on convenience in location, but the house was a tremendous deal.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Yeah, mortgages around here are a lot higher than rent. But rent is going up at a rate of about 10% per year, so it probably makes sense to buy, even with a more expensive mortgage. Eventually you'll come out on top.

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