Student Debt Reduces Buyers' Budgets by Nearly $100,000

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Nov 15, 2018
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About a third of renters who plan to buy a home in the next year are carrying student debt

- The average monthly student debt payment for renters who are planning to buy a home in the next 12 months is $388.

- The highest priced home a renter with student debt could afford without spending more than 30 percent of their income on housing and student debt is $269,400, meaning they could buy just over half of the homes currently for sale.

- A renter without student debt could afford to buy a home that costs up to $361,800, or 66.4 percent of available homes.

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