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Low Interest Rates Create 12 Percent Home Price Appreciation

Each 1 percent drop in interest rates in the last 15 years has allowed home sellers to raise prices 12 percent. According to the report, a typical family earning $60,000 per year can afford a mortgage payment of $1,800 per month, and would have qualified for a $245,000 mortgage in the year 2000 when mortgage rates were 8 percent. This same family qualifies for a home priced at $377,000 when rates are 4.0%.

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Report: Student Debt to Drive 2014 Home Sales Down 8%

Going against recent assertions that student debt may not prove as big a hindrance to the housing market as feared, a new report from researchers at John Burns Real Estate Consulting argues that student loans could cost the industry tens of billions of dollars this year alone.

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