With regards to buying a house: Pay more now with lower interest rate or pay less later with higher interest rate?

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Huh?

Interest rates are low now, expected to go up later.

OP may be implying if they should pay points / higher cost upfront to get a lower rate or not.

It depends on the loan amount, upfront cost and the interest rates offered in each scenario.

Home prices are not going down significantly at least in major metros and their burbs. There is no mortgage crisis and most have locked in a low sub 3% interest rate so they are not divesting en masse thus driving the home prices down.

You're making major assumptions to even ask that question. To answer it though, just make some more assumptions on your sample scenario and run the math on various online mortgage calculators.

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