Friday, June 01, 2007

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Renters Have Much to Gain by Pursuing Home Ownership

Yes, there are certain responsibilities associated with owning a home. Landlords will often argue the benefits of renting, and for obvious reason. If you are renting, you are helping them make their mortgage payment.

The numbers are staggering if you look at it this way. If you are paying $1,000 per month for an apartment, and you know your rent will increase 5% every year, then over the next five years you will pay your landlord $66,309. If you are currently renting a house, you may be paying much more than that each month. Either way, you gain no equity by shelling out this monthly housing expense and you certainly will not benefit when the property value goes up!

However, if you were to purchase your own home or condominium, you would be well on your way toward building equity within that same five-year period. By choosing a fixed-rate loan program, you can have the comfort of knowing that your monthly mortgage payment will never go up. In fact, you would have the option of refinancing to a lower interest rate at some point in the future should interest rates drop, and this would cause your monthly mortgage commitment to go down.... View the rest of this article by visiting BuyerBeWhere.com at the link above...


 

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BRIEFING - ASIA REAL ESTATE - JUNE 1, 2007 (Asia Pulse via Yahoo!7 Finance)

Fri, 01 Jun 2007 05:29:18 GMT
The Shanghai Headquarters of the People's Bank of China (PBC), the country's central bank, recently issued "window guide" requirements in the newly published "Guide to Credit Investment in Shanghai (2007 Revision)", requiring financial institutions in Shanghai to continue standardizing loans to real estate development, rationally control credit extension, promote innovation of credit ...


 

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