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Same here. When I started my search last year, while I could afford the mortgage payments, I kept getting outbid on everything I could find within my price range ($550,000). This year I'm priced out due to the doubling of interest rates. Home prices in the area I'm looking at (the Monterey Bay Area and some of the Central Valley exurbs of the Bay Area) have fallen a little bit since this summer, but they are still dramatically higher (roughly 30-50%) than they were in 2020 when the pandemic started. My performance-based salary increases haven't kept up with inflation. Thus I'm stuck renting my one-bedroom apartment longer.