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Affordability, by the standard measure of what share of median household income goes toward the monthly payment on a median-priced home, is near its worst level since the early 1980s. That is a real problem, and it is not going away quickly. A market can stay unaffordable for longer than most buyers expect to wait. What it means, practically, is that the pool of [qualified buyers](https://cac5.altervista.org/index.php?title=Utente:RetaNanney) is smaller than it was three years ago.
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The timing question, whether to buy now or wait for rates to come down, is the one that trips up more buyers than any other single factor. The record on market timing for owner-occupied housing is not [encouraging](http://lineage2.hys.cz/user/OrvalKean595/). The more useful question is not whether now is the right time in the abstract; it is whether you are buying because the numbers make sense for you, not because you feel social pressure to own.
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