The impact of mortgage rationing and the decline in house buying was revealed in the dampening of house-buying aspirations among private renters.
So if you want to get -- if you want to buy a house, then putting zero down and buying a house that is probably not affordable for you in case something goes wrong, that's something that has to be reconsidered.
First, the relative cost of buying a house has fallen quite dramatically in the north.
At the time a Rasta buying a house like that in uptown Kingston caused an uproar.
Thirteen percent delayed a life event like buying a house, and 7% delayed retirement.
They are buying a house and want to get it as cheaply as they can.
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Buying a house is still a labyrinthine process with time-sensitive signatures, courier visits and faxes.
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The insistence on buying a house to live in, however, may in fact be misguided.
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They motored to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, to wait for the weather to improve--and ended up buying a house there.
Instead it is consumption and a transfer of wealth no different from buying a house or a movie ticket.
It would be somewhat of a reach, buying a house in that neighborhood.
About one-in-five people use these kinds of mechanisms to finance everything from buying a house to cashing their checks.
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She's right, and you should do the arithmetic before buying a house.
Instead, like buying a house with a small down payment, you pay a fraction of the contract's value yourself and borrow the rest.
She and her husband, Roy, lived on what had been a council estate, although they had been buying their house for years now.
Today we need it for everything: working, buying a house, socializing.
Buying a house together can be dangerous for an unmarried couple.
For most Americans a comparable "irresponsible" act of debt is called buying a house, for which they then work hard and creatively to pay the mortgage.
Buying a house in a distressed situation, whether from the buyer in a pre-foreclosed status or from the lender or bank once foreclosed, is not very simple.
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When you're making a decision about buying a house, employing extra staff or investing in a business you want to know that your investment will pay off.
Investment takes many forms, not just formal education, but buying a house in a neighborhood with the best schools, paying for informal and extra-curricular tutoring, classes, cram-schools, camps, foreign travel, etc.
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For many of us, this has meant buying a house in the suburbs where we could raise our families safely and comfortably--and paying for it every day with an exhausting commute.
Can most of us envision ourselves as using such kind of analytical approach to buying a car, or buying a house, or choosing a career, or choosing a school for our kids?
Home ownership among younger Americans is at a 16-year low, according to a CNNMoney survey, and every indication is that younger people no longer share the American Dream of buying a house.
Well, because one of the major downsides of buying a house is that your equity is locked up in it and you have this very long term mortgage contract that its hard to get out of.
"Whether you are buying a house or building a factory, you want a level of comfort about what can be built on your doorstep, " says Richard Blythe, head of policy at the Royal Town Planning Institute.
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