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One major difference is that a mortgage is essentially “rent to own” - at the end of the repayment you own the property. Here ownership remains with JPMorgan?


But if you're renting you're paying the landlord's mortgage not your own and you own nothing either way.


Most BTL (buy-to-let) landlords will have interest only mortgages. You wont be paying down their capital as they have none. The revenue that they generate is the difference between your rent payment and the interest payment. The landlord will never own the property.


Sure, but renting is going to be what a lot of people continue to do - save some miracle of market disruption.




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