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This Is What 5% Mortgage Rates Mean Now For The Housing Market

Odd Lots

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Housing Is Shelter, and It's Also Shelter From Rising Rents

Housing is shelter, and it's also shelter from rising rent. So rents are going up enormously. I might as well own my own house in the current situation. And so in an environment in which there's a high degree of anxiety about rents going up every year, you could pay extra and buy a house to lock in a monthly cost that's stable for 30 years out. Even if mortgage rates are going op, at least they're relatively unpredictable.

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