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5 years after I (a Gen Xer) finished college, I faced unemployment and mortgage rates just under 6%.
Today the unemployment rate is 5.5% and the mortgage interest rate is under 4%.
While buying a first house is never an easy thing to do, there are plenty of indicators that it's not harder today than it was in the past.
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5 years after I (a Gen Xer) finished college, I faced unemployment and mortgage rates just under 6%.
Today the unemployment rate is 5.5% and the mortgage interest rate is under 4%.
While buying a first house is never an easy thing to do, there are plenty of indicators that it's not harder today than it was in the past.