Interest rates have come down in recent weeks. I think they will continue to move even lower, so shouldn’t I wait until that happens before I decide to buy a home?
No. Interest rates currently stand at about 6.5 percent and are extremely favorable for buyers. In fact, they are hovering near 30-year lows. But waiting to time the market is a dangerous—and losing—game. Even those who follow the market for a living can’t figure out when interest rates will bottom out. If they could, they would all be multi-millionaires. Because interest rates are near historic lows, it is much more likely that they will head higher in the future as opposed to moving even lower. And home prices don’t necessarily move in unison with interest rates. So, if you decided to roll the dice and wait to purchase a home and the price were to actually drop $10,000 from where it is today, you could still end up losing money. How? If interest rates were to move up a half-a-point during this period, the savings on the reduced home price would be more than offset by the higher monthly payment you would be making over the life of the loan. In short, the smartest and safest time to bu
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