A while ago, the New York Times offered an interactive graphic,
which allows you to enter all the variables you need to determine whether you come out ahead buying vs renting. You are able to enter the price for the house, rent of a similar house, down payment, interest rate on your mortgage, along with the assumed increase in home value or monthly rent. Note: you may click on the image above to be taken to the Times’ web site.
Joe
The New York Times offers an interactive page offering beautiful graphs of the change in home prices in different parts of the country.
Clicking on the image above will take you to the Times’ site where you can view the changes in the region you wish.
Joe
The New York Times continues to impress me with how they manipulate data that may otherwise just be a sea of numbers, and transform it into a beautiful chart and/or graph. Click on the image below to launch the Times’ interactive version of the chart, where you can clearly see how each item comprising the government’s shopping list adds to the reported inflation number.
Joe
