The US housing market has changed dramatically since the pandemic - an issue looming over the election.

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The median home sale price in the US has jumped by nearly 30% since the end of 2019, hitting $420,000 this spring.

At a time of rising property values globally, the leap has been one of the most dramatic in the world, according to the International Monetary Fund.

And that’s not factoring in the added costs from higher interest rates, which now stand at roughly 7% for the 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage that is typical in the US, up from about 3% in 2020.

Homebuyers today need an annual income of more than $100,000 - well above the country’s household median of about $75,000 - to comfortably afford a home in most places in the US, research firms such as Zillow and Bankrate say, and face monthly payments that have roughly doubled in just four years.

  • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    It was a shitty 900 square foot 2 bedroom for 40k. My mortgage was $109 a month.

    How long ago was this? I wanted to do something like that in 2009, but banks refused to write a loan that small because (with laws limiting origination fees to a percentage of principal etc.) there wasn’t any profit in it. (I ended up buying a 3-bedroom house for ~$100k instead, and the super-cheap house I wanted sold for cash to a flipper, who put an addition on it and sold it again a year later for ~$300k).

    Dude took the full term to pay me off even though I suggested that he take a loan in an attempt to rebuild their credit. Nope. Just gave me money each month.

    As the landlord/creditor, you could’ve reported the on-time payments to the credit bureaus yourself, I think.