Rent or buy

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Your numbers

KES

The purchase

Cost of owning it

Renting instead

What the future does

Tax

What you'd be worth if you sold that year

Buy Rent & invest the difference Crossover — where buying overtakes renting

Key figures

Where the money goes each month

Averaged over year one

What would change the answer

One change at a time, everything else held still