Posts in category 'Harrisonburg Real Estate News'

Buying A Home Is More Affordable Than Renting In 54% Of US Counties, Maybe even Harrisonburg.

According to ATTOM Data Solutions' 2018 Rental Affordability Report, "buying a median-priced home is more affordable than renting a three-bedroom property in 240 of 447 [or 54% of] U.S. counties analyzed for the report."

For the report, ATTOM Data Solutions compared recently released fair market rent data from the Department of Housing and Urban Development with reported income amounts from the Department of Labor and Statistics to determine...

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Owning a home in Harrisonburg and the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia has great financial benefits, yet many continue renting! Today, let's look at the financial reasons why owning a home of your own has been a part of the American Dream for as long as America has existed.

Zillow recently reported that:

"With Rents continuing to climb and interest rates staying low, many renters find themselves gazing over the homeownership fence and wondering if the grass really is greener. Leaving aside, for the moment, the difficulties of saving for a down payment, let's focus on the monthly expenses of owning a home: it turns out that renters currently paying the median rent in many ma...

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