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Re:Show HN: Should I Get a House? a better rent vs. buy calc... by rory on Monday July 19, 2021 @08:09PM (#27888727)
That is another type of inflation, but it's an interesting point that you may care about both the general consumer inflation rate (for its interaction with the mortgage interest rate) and the rent price inflation rate.
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Re:Show HN: Should I Get a House? a better rent vs. buy calc... by stonemetal12 on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @08:57AM (#27893153)
I just assumed the inflation rate was applied to both rent and house price, as a general change in the value of a dollar. While they mostly move in line together, rent prices and home prices don't always move together so a change in value term that effects one and not the other might be useful.
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