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The Daily Money: Can I afford to insure my home?
View Date:2025-01-10 05:05:57
Good morning! It's Daniel de Visé with your Daily Money.
Even if you can afford to buy a home these days, Medora Lee reports, ask yourself if you can afford to insure it.
Nearly 30% of American homeowners are nervous about rising home insurance rates, according to insurance comparison site Insurify.
Home insurance prices jumped 19% last year, or $273 per policy, on average, according to a study by Guaranteed Rate Insurance.
And more increases may be on their way.
Why first-time homebuyers aren't buying
In a recent poll, 71% of potential first-time homebuyers said they won’t enter the market until interest rates drop.
Prospective homeowners sit at an impasse. Mortgage rates are not particularly high, at least in a historical sense: Roughly 7.5%, on a 30-year fixed-rate loan. Yet, first-time buyers are painfully aware of how much lower rates stood just a few years ago: Below 4%, on average, through all of 2020 and 2021, and below 5% through most of the 2010s.
The new poll is one of several new surveys that show would-be homebuyers balking at elevated interest rates. And the sentiment isn’t limited to new buyers.
But will we ever see the 4% mortgage again?
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