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Oh, those damn desperate first home buyers! Of course they aren't deterred by rising rates, their choices are to pay $870,000 for a two-bedroom apartment, or be homeless. In October 2023 I bought a shitty little apartment for $310k (and only got it because the real estate agent said the seller wanted it to go to someone who needed to live in it rather than an investment), by mid 2024 other ones in the same building were going for $430k, one sold a month ago for $587k. It's fucking insane.
I was pretty poor all through my 20s, I think the most I made at any time until I was 28 was $400 a week, and I never expected to own property until I started saving every extra cent for a hopeful deposit in 2022, looks like I got in at the last second. Good luck to any desperate first home buyers these days.
Bought a house in early 2021, I didn't think we were ready but my wife loved the place we found. In retrospect, it was our last opportunity to buy in the region we are in, I can't afford today's home prices and rates.
That seems to be what's happened here.
We bought in 2018, and the value has doubled since then. However, upgrading to a bigger place with room for all our stuff (and our kids stuff) is almost out of reach.
I live in a place that does not allow rentals. It somewhat keeps the price in check but honestly like bank foreclosures and such don't seem keen on selling very fast. So it feels like a combo of everything else being expensive drives normal folks here who can't compete with the corps and even then the businesses realize the condos are still useful as value stores. So despite the affordable nature relative to other places im pretty sure I could not buy where I live today. its nuts.
I just bought a place for 430, but everything I saw prior to purchase had shown the apartment market going down?