If you've bought a home in the past 30 years, what did you pay for it?

Bought our home in 2009, it was a repo and needed a lot of work. It wasn't worth 100K but we had to buy it for $155K. This same house is now worth over $525K. Half a million for a house with 2,000 sq, including the basement. Stupid.

Bought in 2016 for 145,000, now 190,000 if I sold, refi in 2020 for .5% drop in interest

NJ 5 years ago $200,000 today $325,000 all we did is live in it.

There’s several posts about the lack of increase in wage. This seems to be reverse think. There’s no requirement for companies to lessen the burden of tax (including inflation). The corruption lies within interest.

Hmm. It has not risen to 300K. Your Dollars have devalued by 2000%

Euphemisms do not change reality. It's just a twist to fool the stupid. You need 300% more Dollars to buy the same or more than 10 years ago.

Another fool twisting reality in his mind.

He needs $422'000 Dollars to buy something worth only 53K in 1994.

Your Dollars have devalued almost 1000%

I bought my first house in 1997. I paid $102K.

It sold in 2009 for $174K.

It sold again in 2020 for $200K.

Current value says $385K

I looked at homes where my son lives, small town in the midwest - they've gone up nearly double too. I think the window of opportunity for affordable homes are gone and I agree that those living in big cities are screwed.

My friend bought a studio condo in NYC in 2018 - the upper East side. She paid a fortune for it. She loved it. Going out with friends every night for dinners, enjoying all the city had to offer. Then covid hit and boom - she was stuck in her box of an apartment with a tiny oven and 2 burner stovetop. She figured she would sell after all the covid crap but then the crime wave happened and now she's stuck in a shithole.

Listen jackass he is only stating reality. Here is a clue...take the LARGE SUM and down size in a lower cost of living area.

Yes. It's outrageous here in NH. We don't have sales tax or income tax but they gouge us with the property tax. We rank #3 in highest property tax (under New jersey and Illinois).
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Same here… we bought our house three years ago and now it’s value four times… and maybe even more with all the updates I’m doing it… I started raising chickens last year and fertilizing the yards with the chicken waste… this spring I invested few thousands in buying fruit trees and seeds.

I haven’t checked our taxes, I thing they are still the same …

I bought a HUD foreclosure to flip, the end of 1997, for $75K. Zillow lists it's estimate at $436,600 to $472,00 today.

Not me.

I don't know a single (local) person that voted for the senile Obiden.

That idiot was installed via a 12AM to 5AM vote-fraud coup by the See Eye Aye and all of their leftist DS-flunkies/associates in WI, GA, AZ, MI, and PA.

When you have a thieving oligarch-owned Goobermint and a private bank that prints/digitalizes money from nothing..

You have the US situation here in May of 2022..

Lessons learned, Idiot Amerikka.

Their End Game is remove 85-90% of the humans now alive from the planet. If inflation and mass-starvation do the trick ... then THAT is EXACTLY what they will fund to see readily occur and subsequently happen.

Your Overlords want you dead.

Sorry for the bad news, but the truth often hurts...

Bought in 2015 130k. Which is stupid for a stick built home. That is literally worth 70-80k if that in material.

Now apparently worth up to 400k