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Re:The Era of Very Low Inflation and Interest Rates May Be N... by hanoz on Thursday April 26, 2018 @05:05PM (#16935779)
It wouldn't make any difference to those who own their homes outright, unless they were planning on trading up, in which case is it would be a positive, or down, a negative. Those who overleveraged could indeed find themselves in difficulty, however I fully expect they will get bailed out by the very people they priced out of the market by overbidding.
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Re:The Era of Very Low Inflation and Interest Rates May Be N... by jeffreyrogers on Friday April 27, 2018 @10:41AM (#16941088)
Well, if they were planning on trading up, now the home they were going to sell to purchase a new home is worth less too, so it comes out in the wash. In either case, it makes their net worth look worse on paper.
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