Buying A Home Still A Good Investment

Home buyers preserve their wealth with residential loans.

According to a recent Rasmussen Report, even though the housing market is still struggling to recover a historical downturn, almost 80% of Americans think that buying a home is still a good investment. According to a June 2008 survey by Rasmussen Reports, only 9% of homeowners surveyed experienced their property losing value in the recent downturn. 80% of homeowners reported their home values above their purchase price, with the remaining 10% experienced little to no change.

US Business Finance Corp has worked with many clients and small business owners to help them improve their personal and business equity picture with residential loans and commercial real estate mortgages. In the experience of our lending professionals, even with its cyclical nature, the real estate market overall has a long-term track record of wealth preservation that often can be leveraged for business expansion or improving operating capital situations. Contact our financing team to see how we can help you obtain the real estate loan the fits your financial position best.

Among the people considering real estate who are under 40 years old, the optimistic attitude toward the value of home ownership increases to 85%. This level is very close to the level of investors (defined in the study as people who have diversified their savings into stocks, bonds and mutual funds), of which 86% value real estate investments versus only 72% of non-investors.

Possibly pushing the confidence in home ownership is the concurrent fall of the dollar and the rise in gas, heating and food prices. At least 70% of every demographic and political party segment of the population felt their home investment had increased in value.