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Who else is having their mortgage fecked by interest rates at the moment.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was luck enough to buy a 3 bedroom house in Tas back in 2016 for $280,000. We have a home loan amount remaining around $200k, in 12 months, our repayments have gone from $1037 to $1478 a month. We are lucky that we can afford this still but with the price of everything else going up it's starting to get tighter for sure. I can't imagine what it's like for the people who bought a house when the prices were at their peak after being told that the rates won't change, so they took out a $500k + loan just to get into the market.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah we got lucky and found a place that was well below what people were paying in the current market. But yeah a lot of folks out there are feeling it at the moment cause you really had no other choice.