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I mean…you won’t be building that equity because you’ll already have it all.
The house will still appreciate as it would if you got a mortgage.
Your realtor sounds dumb. If you have the cash and don’t have anything better to spend it on nothing wrong with paying all cash for a house when interest rates are like 7-8%. Just make sure to mention it when you are putting in offers.
Yeah your realtor sounds like a complete idiot - if you pay in cash you already have ALL of the equity! What is that moron talking about building equity?
I would think of this more from the perspective of “how can your money be most effective”.
You can buy all cash and you’re avoiding 7% mortgage interest. If you can say use your cash instead to invest in something that will yield greater than 7% interest it would make sense to finance the house and invest your cash elsewhere.
The best answer is probably in the middle and a bit more complicated. You can see what kind of rates you can get for like 40-50% down. Depending on the cost of the house you may also benefit from itemizing your taxes and deducting the mortgage interest. You can deduct interest on $750k of mortgage every year (currently).
Equity not relevant in your case, it’s how to make your money work for you effectively.
Also don’t use your realtor as your financial advisor. Just about anyone can become a realtor in a few weeks/months, it’s not difficult.
I agree with the previous responses. Your realtor probably wants you to finance with their person too. I
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It has to do with leverage. When you put 20% down you are 5 to 1 leveraged. Let’s walk through it. 100k house, 20k down, finance 80k. Houses go up at historical averages around 5%. So I make 5% on 100k, 5k appreciation on my 20k investment 20% return on cash invested. The problem is you are paying interest, so if you pay 7% interest on the loan it’s not as good as it initially sounds. Plus you have the expenses on the home. They front load interest on the loan payment schedule. The math gets too complex to wing it here. So about 95% of your payment is going to paying off interest, not principal pay down. Compare that to 100k invested 5% return you got a 5% return on cash invested. So the question is how can I grow my wealth faster with 100k. Invest in an S&P 500 index fund with 80k and 20% down on home, or paying off the house. You can find tools to run the analysis to see which is the better option. Personally I own my home and the reason I justified it was not return on investment, it was risk. I always have a home no matter what happens in life.
Can they show the comparison? Probably not. Last time I ran all the calculations paying off the house had a better rate of return when interest rates are 7%. Mainly due the scammy way they do the amortization of the loan. Banks love new financing/refinancing it keeps all the interest at the front of the loan, even if the rate goes down. Most people don’t even notice they pay like 700k on a 350k house at these rates. When interest rates go down and it’s 3% interest it can shift to leveraging debt is the better approach to growing wealth. So it’s not a one size fits all scenarios. Until you run the calculations, assumptions, time horizon people are guessing. A primary home vs a rental has completely different considerations. I had a project once to do all the calculations, it kinda changed the way I thought about it.
you have nothing but 100% equity in the first place. It's ALL equity. For example, if you put 30% down and borrowed 70%, your LTV ratio 70%. Your equity is 30%. If you put 55% down, your equity is 55% and your LTV is 45%.
In my opinion, it’s best to still get a small mortgage to take advantage of tax deductions while putting down a big down payment to lower the risk. If we were in a low-interest rate environment, I would put down as little as I could and grow my money elsewhere.
The equity is already built. Congrats! Now you save monthly