{"id":539,"date":"2015-01-07T04:25:23","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T23:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nohasslelistingblog.com\/?p=539"},"modified":"2015-01-07T04:25:23","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T23:25:23","slug":"why-buy-at-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nohasslelistingblog.com\/?p=539","title":{"rendered":"Why Buy at All?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last decade has seen some of the most volatile real estate profits and losses that most people will see in their lifetimes.\u00c2\u00a0 The sad thing is what this has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nohasslelisting.com\/Sellers\/whybuyatall.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-540\" src=\"https:\/\/nohasslelistingblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/why-buy-at-all.png\" alt=\"why buy at all\" width=\"160\" height=\"76\" \/><\/a>done to the average consumer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s perception of appreciation.\u00c2\u00a0 If you have one year (as we did) with 47% increase in values \u00e2\u20ac\u201c then the historical range of 2-5% appreciation\u00c2\u00a0 looks pretty pathetic.\u00c2\u00a0 But does it really when we look at a \u00e2\u20ac\u009dreal life\u00e2\u20ac\u009d scenario?<\/p>\n<p>Take an average first time homebuyer who purchases a $175,000 home with 3% down at a 4% interest rate with 4% appreciation per year ( a very realistic number in the valley).\u00c2\u00a0 In five years, that borrower has a net equity of almost $50,000.\u00c2\u00a0 To see this example <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nohasslelisting.com\/Sellers\/whybuyatall.html\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Still wondering why to buy vs. rent?\u00c2\u00a0 The answer is all in the numbers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last decade has seen some of the most volatile real estate profits and losses that most people will see in their lifetimes.\u00c2\u00a0 The sad thing is what this has done to the average consumer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s perception of appreciation.\u00c2\u00a0 If you have one year (as we did) with 47% increase in values \u00e2\u20ac\u201c then the historical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-values","category-market-stats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nohasslelistingblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nohasslelistingblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nohasslelistingblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nohasslelistingblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nohasslelistingblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nohasslelistingblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":541,"href":"https:\/\/nohasslelistingblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions\/541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nohasslelistingblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nohasslelistingblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nohasslelistingblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}