Re:Chinese Buy One-Third of Vancouver Homes: National Bank E...
by gozur88 on Thursday March 24, 2016 @06:10PM
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>No it doesn't. If you're renting, you're financing someone else's ownership of the property.
That's only true if your rent covers their payment, which tends to not be true in a bubble. Where I am, in the years leading up to 2008 there were more rentals available than the market could really support. People were buying houses and getting rents that only covered part of the payment because they were counting on capital appreciation to make them money. If you were a renter it was a great deal. For $1600 you could rent a house that would sell for $700k, which isn't even close to covering the payment.
After the bubble popped the price of housing went down dramatically, and the price of rentals went up dramatically as people stopped buying houses assuming they would appreciate forever.
Also, people who've never owned a house drastically underestimate the costs associated with owning one. I bought my house after the crash, for cash. My housing outlay (with no mortgage) is about 75% of what I paid in rent. And that's not counting maintenance, like painting and appliance repair, or major stuff like a new roof. If the bubble had never popped I would have come out far ahead just staying in the apartment and investing the savings.
That's only true if your rent covers their payment, which tends to not be true in a bubble. Where I am, in the years leading up to 2008 there were more rentals available than the market could really support. People were buying houses and getting rents that only covered part of the payment because they were counting on capital appreciation to make them money. If you were a renter it was a great deal. For $1600 you could rent a house that would sell for $700k, which isn't even close to covering the payment.
After the bubble popped the price of housing went down dramatically, and the price of rentals went up dramatically as people stopped buying houses assuming they would appreciate forever.
Also, people who've never owned a house drastically underestimate the costs associated with owning one. I bought my house after the crash, for cash. My housing outlay (with no mortgage) is about 75% of what I paid in rent. And that's not counting maintenance, like painting and appliance repair, or major stuff like a new roof. If the bubble had never popped I would have come out far ahead just staying in the apartment and investing the savings.