• stormdahl@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    18 days ago

    For me personally I’d like a 50-60 square meter apartment for no more than 2x my annual income. And I’d like to be able to get a loan with a monthly down payment equal to whatever I’ve been paying in rent for the last couple of years.

    I can pay 12500 NOK a month in rent, but for some reason the bank can’t trust me to pay the same amount if I were to buy an apartment? Fuck that.

    • Aux@feddit.ukEnglish
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      18 days ago

      Banks used to trust people and that has led to GFC. So most governments now have legal frameworks to ensure that banks don’t trust you anymore. I don’t think you want another GFC.

      • stormdahl@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        18 days ago

        Surely there can be a middle ground.

        I hate that I’ve been paying close to 150k NOK a year in rent for the last ten years but for some reason I can’t be trusted with a loan unless I make a lot more and save up something like 300k.

        Except for the fact that I have a place to live it feels like I’m throwing money out the window.

        • Aux@feddit.ukEnglish
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          18 days ago

          I don’t know what the situation is in your country, but here’s an example from the UK.

          Imagine you bought a £500k house in London just after the pandemic. The mortgage rates were around 1.2-1.3%. You could afford monthly payments at the time, everything looked cool. Now a couple years later the war in Ukraine starts, economy tanks and interest rates go over 7%. Now your monthly payments become 3-4x higher and you’re fucked. You lose your house, become homeless and you still owe half a mil. The end.