Should You Buy a Home?

WSJ Your Money Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Business News

3.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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For many Americans, buying a home can help them build wealth and achieve financial security. WSJ’s Bourree Lam and Julia Carpenter, authors of “The New Rules of Money,” join host J.R. Whalen to discuss the questions you should ask yourself before you start the search. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.1	Here's your money briefing for Sunday, January 21st. I'm J.R. Whelan for the Wall Street Journal.
0:37.0	The third installment of our four-part series about planning your financial future focuses on the biggest purchase you're likely to make in your life, a home.
0:50.0	And while picturing yourself inside a new home might be easy.
0:54.0	The path to get there is filled with questions.
0:57.2	This is also a long commitment.
0:58.6	It's why people will put off buying a home or they will rush to buy a home.
1:02.4	Because if you're looking at fixed rates on a 30-year
1:05.7	mortgage that means you're going to be with that interest rate for 30 years.
1:10.3	You can refinance, you can do other things to either lower it or change it, but you have to feel comfortable with it.
1:16.4	We'll talk to W.S. J.'s Baray Lamb and Julia Carpenter, authors of the book The New Rules of Money.
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