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Mortgage rates soar to their highest level in 21 years (www.cnn.com)

submitted 1 year ago by deconstruct@lemmy.world to c/personalfinance@lemmy.ml

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The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 7.09% in the week ending August 17, up from 6.96% the week before. Rates have been above 6.5% since the end of May and climbing higher since mid-July. This week’s average rate is the highest the 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage has been since April 2002 when it was 7.13%.

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[–] Poayjay@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, but you’ll have to deal with an HOA with a townhouse. At least with this it’s your property.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Most of those have an HOA too. My house doesn't, which was a huge selling point.

[–] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Almost every American suburb has an hoa just like condos, cities make the HOAs take care of common ground like street lights, roads, minor water features, etc so they don’t have to. My HOAs is responsible for our road, sidewalks, retaining walls on the hills surrounding the subdivision, the creek running through our subdivision, streetlights, and a bunch more. So the city collects our tax dollars as residents but spends very little on infrastructure we use. And I guess technically it’s my land, I consider it as belonging to the bank until I pay it off in another 27 years lol