Pick your moment
Central Austin, in any year from 1980 to 2025. Rates, prices and rents are the ones actually recorded, and the clock is yours.
1980
The year you startStarting money
$100,000Your limit in 1980$100,000
Tenant$0 to spend in 1980 dollarsYour office
- Start with up to your limit.
- Cash out any time.
- Half your profit raises it, half a loss lowers it. It never drops below where you began.
Why does it change with the year?
Prices rose over the years, so the same buying power takes more dollars later. Your limit is the same in every year:
1980$100,000
1991$172,100
2006$253,000
2021$337,100
Rate, Jan 198012.94%
30-year fixed, as recorded.
Per $100,000 borrowed$1,102/mo
Principal and interest.
Next five years▲ 18.52%
Rates spike to their high in 1981 first.
History ahead46 years
Until the recorded data ends.
What lies ahead
1981Rates peak at 18.52%.
1986The oil bust. Austin prices fall 26% by mid-1990.
1992Rates fall below 8%. A refinance window.
Your tools
1/12Buy · rent · sell
- Finish the tutorialunlocks Refinance
- One cash-positive monthunlocks 15-year loans
- Sell a buildingunlocks 1031 exchange
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