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Re:Interest Rates: Naturally Negative? by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @10:44PM (#20692310)
No, I'm pretty sure there's going to be an upper limit, and it's going to be somewhat less than 100% of the purchase price. It's not carte blanche to borrow unlimited amounts of money.

In fact, I would be surprised if you could get away with no payments (a balloon payment loan, as it were). I would be rather shocked if they were offering such loans.

Absent data that they are actually offering such loans (balloon and/or untethered to the price of the property), I find your conclusions unwarranted.

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Re:Interest Rates: Naturally Negative? by caseysoftware on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @08:42PM (#20701525)
It's not all the way there but the first steps are occurring:

"In Denmark, the ultra-low interest rate environment has in turn caused home prices to increase as borrowers could afford pricier homes."

Ref: https://www.msn.com/en-us/finance/markets/a-danish-bank-is-o...

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