Tag: Real Estate Market
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Get in Early, Make a High Down Payment: The Case for Assertive Home Buying
Have you noticed the big home finance companies desperately touting their low-down-payment deals? You’d think no one wants to put 20% down anymore! But interest rates are high, so keeping your debt high is a pricey thing to do. Therefore, it can make sense, for those who can swing it, to: Let’s explore the case…
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Frustrated Home Buyer? It’s Not You. Affordability Is the Worst It’s Been in a Century
Given today’s incomes, mortgage interest rates, and the prices on homes, we just had the least affordable month for U.S. housing in our century. September 2023 was the second record-breaking month this year. We might be headed for a third record before the year’s over. In fact, the last time it was this hard…

