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except that those are not the numbers we have today (in the US, I don't know in the UK).

Rather, for a $1M house:

1. The bank lends me $800k to buy a house with a 6.5% interest. you need to put 200k$ as a downpayment.

2. The rent equivalent is 28000$ a year.

The math is way more complex than this, but what really matter at this point is the gap between renting and buying a place.





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