“Rent is money thrown away.” This belief is so embedded in Indian financial culture that it functions as received wisdom — repeated at family gatherings, in WhatsApp groups, and by financial advisors who have not run the numbers recently. The honest analysis is more complicated. Renting and buying are different financial instruments suited to different…
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Renting vs buying in India is a conversation that refuses to settle — and it’s not supposed to, because the right answer is genuinely different depending on which city you’re in. A piece in the Economic Times (read it here) made this case with a city-by-city breakdown, arguing that in high-price metros, renting can actually…