Should You Rent or Buy? The New Math.
Update: 2023-12-01
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Description
For many millennials, buying a home has become almost entirely out of reach. Average 30-year mortgage rates are hovering around 7 percent — the highest they’ve been since 2007 — largely because of the Federal Reserve’s efforts to tame inflation.
David Leonhardt, a senior writer for The New York Times, discusses whether it is time to change how we think about buying vs. renting.
Guest: David Leonhardt, a senior writer for The New York Times. He writes The Morning, The Times’s flagship daily newsletter, and also writes for Sunday Review.
Background reading:
- Are you ready to buy a home? Should you rent? Take our quiz.
- From Opinion: Millennials are hitting middle age — and it doesn’t look like what we were promised.
- The New York Times’ review of David Leonhardt’s book “Ours Was the Shining Future.”
For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.
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In Channel
Why working man have to pay 20-35% tax when some superduper huge magnats went to offshores and pay 1%? Why governments all over the world are silent (Macron, bonjour!) about it? Inflation is the result of such inequal rules.
it would have been great to get a better perspective on markets different from big cities. college towns and growing cities might give a faster pay out in the end. also there's so much instability with renting, you never know when the landlord might sell the house.