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    Five reasons FHBs should avoid buying now

    SVRs exceeded yields for all the years of your chart from 1988. I didn't say it was always double. It was triple in 1989 and 1990 and more than double in 1988, 1991, 2008. It was double in 2000, 2006 and 2007. It was nearly double in 1992/3, 1995/6, 2001, 2004/5. There's nothing unusual about...
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    Five reasons FHBs should avoid buying now

    You have cherry picked a few months in some areas. Before the GFC rate cuts the difference between buying and rent was even greateer than it is now. I'm talking history. At a National level, mortgage rates have always exceeded rents - usually about double. Stapledon's report confirms it. The...
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    Five reasons FHBs should avoid buying now

    "1. Renting is around half the cost of buying" It has always been that way. "2. Falling prices will continue" That prediction has been constant for the last 10 years. "3. You may quickly outgrow your first home" It has always been that way. "4. Ownership ain't all it's cracked...
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