{"id":2078,"date":"2025-02-28T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/is-it-better-to-rent-or-buy-a-home-today\/"},"modified":"2025-02-28T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T11:30:00","slug":"is-it-better-to-rent-or-buy-a-home-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/is-it-better-to-rent-or-buy-a-home-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Is It Better To Rent or Buy a Home Today?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandpointrealtyidaho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Is-It-Better-To-Rent-or-Buy-a-Home-Today-KCM-Share-original.jpg?w=1220&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"Is It Better To Rent or Buy a Home Today? Simplifying The Market\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandpointrealtyidaho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Is-It-Better-To-Rent-or-Buy-a-Home-Today-MEM-original.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandpointrealtyidaho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Is-It-Better-To-Rent-or-Buy-a-Home-Today-MEM-original.jpg?w=1220&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"a graph of orange and blue lines\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Some Highlights<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>A study shows that 70% of prospective buyers fear the long-term consequences of renting. And here\u2019s why.?<\/li>\n<li>Rent usually <a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/housing\/hvs\/files\/currenthvspress.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">rises<\/a> over time and that can make it harder to save up to buy a home. But when you buy, you can stabilize your housing expenses and grow your net worth as <a href=\"https:\/\/fred.stlouisfed.org\/series\/ASPUS\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">home values<\/a> rise.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0While renting may be the less expensive option in some markets, it can\u2019t match the long-term benefits of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simplifyingthemarket.com\/2025\/02\/03\/the-real-benefits-of-buying-a-home-this-year\/?a=783612-02a11606fc81d6a6e402d49bc5bfe20b\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">homeownership<\/a>. What\u2019s your #1 reason for wanting to buy?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/sandpointrealtyidaho.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/28\/is-it-better-to-rent-or-buy-a-home-today\/\">Is It Better To Rent or Buy a Home Today?<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/sandpointrealtyidaho.com\/blog\">Sandpoint Realty<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some Highlights A study shows that 70% of prospective buyers fear the long-term consequences of renting. And here\u2019s why.? Rent usually rises over time and that can make it harder to save up to buy a home. But when you buy, you can stabilize your housing expenses and grow your net worth as home values [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sandpoint-real-estate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}