The couple years leading up to The Pandemic were very much “a break”. Yes, house prices were ever growing but interest rates were ridiculously low. So a LOT of people bought homes that actually came out comparable to what they would be paying in rent.
Albeit, that was also a function of the fearmongering and “You need a 30% down payment” reactions to the insanity of the late 00s. So people who either had insane amounts of money in the bank or who realized PMI is not that much and it was worth “locking in” at a low interest rate? it was a really good time to buy a house.
Albeit, then we entered the current insanity of high interest rates coupled with ever increasing housing prices.
I bought with 10% down in early 2020 and my PMI is only $40/mo which is nothing when you consider my mortgage is fixed at $1500/mo for an entire house while 2 or 3 bedroom apartments are going for more than that in the area now and are unlikely to ever come back down. Our previous 2/1 apartment increased from $550/mo to $1000/mo from 2009 to 2015 when we moved into this house (which we rented and then later bought from the landlord) without a single upgrade or improvement over that time.
The couple years leading up to The Pandemic were very much “a break”. Yes, house prices were ever growing but interest rates were ridiculously low. So a LOT of people bought homes that actually came out comparable to what they would be paying in rent.
Albeit, that was also a function of the fearmongering and “You need a 30% down payment” reactions to the insanity of the late 00s. So people who either had insane amounts of money in the bank or who realized PMI is not that much and it was worth “locking in” at a low interest rate? it was a really good time to buy a house.
Albeit, then we entered the current insanity of high interest rates coupled with ever increasing housing prices.
I bought with 10% down in early 2020 and my PMI is only $40/mo which is nothing when you consider my mortgage is fixed at $1500/mo for an entire house while 2 or 3 bedroom apartments are going for more than that in the area now and are unlikely to ever come back down. Our previous 2/1 apartment increased from $550/mo to $1000/mo from 2009 to 2015 when we moved into this house (which we rented and then later bought from the landlord) without a single upgrade or improvement over that time.