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7% Mortgage Rates Upend the Home-Buyer Playbook
Original: How 7% Mortgages Are Wrecking the Home-Buyer Playbook
With mortgage rates hovering around 7%, the standard advice for buying a home no longer works. The Wall Street Journal reports that buyers are rethinking strategies such as waiting for refinancing, stretching budgets, and timing purchases around rate moves. Elevated borrowing costs have priced out many buyers and forced others to compromise on location, size, or down payments, reshaping how Americans approach the housing market.
Why now: Mortgage rates near 7% are squeezing affordability and forcing buyers to abandon long-standing strategies, making housing costs a hot topic.
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