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Re:Maybe Treating Housing as an Investment Was a Colossal Mi... by 8note on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @02:01AM (#35052440)
Leveraged buyers are more likely to be people that already own houses rather than not though
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Re:Maybe Treating Housing as an Investment Was a Colossal Mi... by sokoloff on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @05:40AM (#35053821)
Everyone who takes a mortgage to buy a property is a leveraged buyer. That’s literally every first-time buyer that I’ve ever known.
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Re:Maybe Treating Housing as an Investment Was a Colossal Mi... by bumby on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @07:04AM (#35054398)
Are you implying most first time homebuyers don’t take debt to finance the purchase?
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