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Re:Lumber crash leads to 'blowout' sales as prices crater by imtringued on Thursday September 16, 2021 @06:25AM (#28549952)
Assuming a 4% interest rate and 30 year mortgage that 700k house will also cost you $500k in interest and therefore the financing cost of that house is $1.2 million. The fun part: dropping interest to 0% raises the price of the house to $1.2 million without raising the financing cost.

What dropping interest rates does is not prop up the price of housing, it's increasing the resale value of the housing you already pay for.

Re:Lumber crash leads to 'blowout' sales as prices crater by Xcelerate on Friday September 17, 2021 @04:57AM (#28562909)
So the winners are the people that already own and the losers are those yet to buy?

This sounds familiar…