What’s on the Buying vs Renting poster
Buying — real costs against Renting — real costs, side by side.
- Buying — real costs: Mortgage interest, not just the payment
- Buying — real costs: Maintenance: often 1% of value a year
- Buying — real costs: Insurance, service charges, ground rent
- Buying — real costs: Transaction costs, both ways
- Buying — real costs: Capital is illiquid
- Renting — real costs: Rent, which usually rises
- Renting — real costs: No equity accrued
- Renting — real costs: Less security of tenure
- Renting — real costs: But: full mobility
- Renting — real costs: And: no maintenance liability
- The break-even is usually a matter of years, not months. Below about five years, tran…
General education, not financial advice. Buying is a housing decision with financial consequences, not primarily an investment.
Questions about the Buying vs Renting poster
- What’s on the Buying vs Renting poster?
- Buying — real costs against Renting — real costs, side by side. Buying — real costs: Mortgage interest, not just the payment; Buying — real costs: Maintenance: often 1% of value a year; Buying — real costs: Insurance, service charges, ground rent; Buying — real costs: Transaction costs, both ways; Buying — real costs: Capital is illiquid; Renting — real costs: Rent, which usually rises; Renting — real costs: No equity accrued; Renting — real costs: Less security of tenure; Renting — real costs: But: full mobility; Renting — real costs: And: no maintenance liability; The break-even is usually a matter of years, not months. Below about five years, tran…. General education, not financial advice. Buying is a housing decision with financial consequences, not primarily an investment.
- Who is the Buying vs Renting poster for?
- Buying vs Renting belongs to the Money section rather than to a school year, because money is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning property can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Buying vs Renting poster?
- Compare total cost of ownership against rent, not mortgage payment against rent. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Buying vs Renting belongs on the wall where that money work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Buying vs Renting?
- The Cost of Buying, Energy Efficiency and Home Emergencies sit alongside Buying vs Renting in the Money section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.The Cost of BuyingEnergy EfficiencyHome Emergencies
- Is the Buying vs Renting poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Buying vs Renting downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Money section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Buying vs Renting poster print at?
- Buying vs Renting is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Buying vs Renting loses nothing.Printing guide
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