Rent or buy
The break-even year for your own numbers. It follows two households month by month: one buys, the other rents and invests the down payment and every dollar owning would have cost more. Whoever has more net worth after each year is ahead. Nothing you enter leaves your browser.
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Buying pulls ahead after
Net worth, buying against renting
What changes it
Years until buying pulls ahead, for other home value growth and other returns on the money not spent on a home. Everything else as above.
Year by year
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