Welp. Interest rates are staying steady (at least) until the next announcement in October.

I don’t feel like inflation has decreased. Housing is still exorbitant. But there haven’t been mass layoffs, so we’ve got that going for us.

  • @sbv@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
    3•1 year ago

    In fairness, that is happening because people are afraid to buy houses right now.

    A lot of people have been priced out of home ownership. Even if they could qualify for a loan, there isn’t housing available at reasonable prices in a number of major metros.

    • @Rocket@lemmy.ca
      1•1 year ago

      there isn’t housing available at reasonable prices in a number of major metros.

      That doesn’t matter. If you truly believed in the housing market, you’d buy a house in another market that does fit your budgetary constraints. You don’t have to live there. If living there is not in the cards you would rent it out and use the income from that rent to pay your own rent.

      The reality is that housing is scary right now. A lot of people have backed away, if only temporarily, because it is not clear what’s going to happen. If the market crashes, they don’t want to be bag holders.

      • @Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca
        1•1 year ago

        If I were to buy a house somewhere and rent it out, the rent would cover the mortgage not my own rent to live somewhere else.