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House prices: Is it better to rent than to buy?

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The dream house you have been wanting to buy for a long time is just getting beyond your means, as interest rates are firming up and prices arent cooling off yet.

This has caused many home buyers to now settle for rented flats instead.

After all rentals are comparatively low in most Indian cities compared to the sky high prices and experts say that moving in as a tenant makes better commercial sense.

If you see rental yields they are anything between 3-5 per cent pre tax which is a misnomer because the commercial yields are anything between 8-10 per cent. There shouldnt be so much of gap that is because rentals are not where they should be, said Sanjay Verma, Executive MD, Cushman & Wakefield.

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