The rental market is softening so fast in some pockets of the country that landlords have no choice but to offer concessions

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The rental market is softening so fast in some pockets of the country that landlords have no choice but to offer concessions - Lemmy.world

There’s a town near us, we’re waiting for the housing bubble to collapse so we can move there, in the past 10 years, they’ve built luxury apartment building after luxury apartment building, hoping that the university students in the town will rent them. They’re about to get a harsh awakening.

we’re waiting for the housing bubble to collapse so we can move there

You may be waiting a very long time. People aren’t selling their homes with mortgages at 2-3 percent from 2020-21. Golden handcuffs until rates come down at some point.

That’s where I am. We bought our place in 2016. Since then i became a parent and my house is no longer ideal, but I have a 2.7% rate when we refinanced during covid.

Zillow says our place is supposedly worth 70% more, but houses are still selling for double.

I can’t move. It’s also fucked up that I’m incredibly fucking fortunate to even have a place. If we hadn’t bought when we did we’d be fucked