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.

Unless they go bankrupt, yeah they are sitting on that as long as possible.
Sure, but if you can’t afford it anymore or you have to move for some reason (e.g. job loss or job move), you can probably rent it out for quite a bit more than your mortgage is and keep building equity. Rents are also sky high in most metros.