{"id":398,"date":"2018-12-11T00:33:19","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T00:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/renwre.info\/2018\/12\/11\/what-if-i-wait-a-year-to-buy-a-home\/"},"modified":"2018-12-11T00:33:19","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T00:33:19","slug":"what-if-i-wait-a-year-to-buy-a-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/renwre.info\/?p=398","title":{"rendered":"What If I Wait A Year to Buy a Home?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"648\" height=\"354\" src=\"https:\/\/files.simplifyingthemarket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/06152821\/20181210-Share-STM.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"What If I Wait Until 2019 To Buy A Home? | Simplifying The Market\" style=\"display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/files.simplifyingthemarket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/06152821\/20181210-Share-STM.jpg 750w, https:\/\/files.simplifyingthemarket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/06152821\/20181210-Share-STM-549x300.jpg 549w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\"><\/p>\n<p>National home prices have increased by 5.4% since this time last year. Over that same time period, interest rates have remained near <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simplifyingthemarket.com\/2018\/10\/02\/mortgage-interest-rates-are-still-going-up-should-you-wait-to-buy\/?a=407209-0a9a783e881394b596f3c5746f5b9a77\">historic lows<\/a> which has allowed many buyers to enter the market and lock in low rates.<span id=\"more-38548\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>As a seller, you will likely be most concerned about\u00a0<em>\u2018short-term price\u2019\u00a0<\/em>\u2013 where home values are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simplifyingthemarket.com\/2018\/10\/25\/where-are-home-values-headed-over-the-next-few-years\/?a=407209-0a9a783e881394b596f3c5746f5b9a77\">headed<\/a> over the next six months. As a buyer, however, you must not be concerned about price but instead about the\u00a0<em>\u2018long-term cost\u2019\u00a0<\/em>of the home.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Mortgage Bankers Association<\/em>\u00a0(MBA),\u00a0<em>Freddie Mac,\u00a0<\/em>and<em>\u00a0Fannie Mae<\/em>\u00a0all project that mortgage interest rates will increase by this time next year. According to\u00a0<em>CoreLogic\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0most recent\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.corelogic.com\/insights-download\/home-price-index.aspx\">Home Price Insights Report<\/a><\/em><em>,\u00a0<\/em>home prices will appreciate by 4.8% over the next 12 months.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>What Does This Mean as a Buyer?<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>If home prices appreciate by 4.8% over the next twelve months as predicted by\u00a0<em>CoreLogic,<\/em>\u00a0here is a simple demonstration of the impact that an increase in interest rate would have on the mortgage payment of a home selling for approximately $250,000 today:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/files.simplifyingthemarket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/06152839\/20181210-STM-ENG.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-38550\" src=\"https:\/\/files.simplifyingthemarket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/06152839\/20181210-STM-ENG.jpeg\" alt=\"What If I Wait Until 2019 To Buy A Home? | Simplifying The Market\" width=\"650\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/files.simplifyingthemarket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/06152839\/20181210-STM-ENG.jpeg 2000w, https:\/\/files.simplifyingthemarket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/06152839\/20181210-STM-ENG-541x300.jpeg 541w, https:\/\/files.simplifyingthemarket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/06152839\/20181210-STM-ENG-1024x568.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Bottom Line<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>If buying a home is in your plan for this year, doing it sooner rather than later could save you thousands of dollars over the terms of your loan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National home prices have increased by 5.4% since this time last year. Over that same time period, interest rates have remained near historic lows which has allowed many buyers to enter the market and lock in low rates. 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