How much (%) of your household income do you spend for your housing rental?

[lunchontheroof]

ouch! We're expecting to be spending about 40% -50% of our income on rent to get something of a decent size...and by decent I mean 1000sqft - not exactly palatial.

And there was me thinking HK housing prices couldn't be any worse than London ones...

Jen

couldnt agree more

[Mat]

Wow 400 voters and +25% spend more than 30% of their household income in their rent. That's rather big.

[RobRoy]

I think the poll scale is miss-leading, I'm bunched together with reasonable people that put ~30% on rent. I should be on freaking 50%+ category .

Not by my own choosing though, I got 1 amount as salary and 1 amount for housing. Housing is bigger than salary.. ..well at least I got a fantastic view

[wizkid123]

wow no wonder some locals are loaded off the property market. Over 60% of us are willing to spend more than 20%(!!) of their income to pay off someone else's property and walk away eventually with nothing but a memory of a smoggy view

[MandM!]

A lot of people have no desire to buy nor do they even think about it.

[jmbf]

A lot of people have no desire to buy nor do they even think about it.

Do you mean in general or just here in HK?

[MandM!]

In the states and here. Don't know about elsewhere.

[jmbf]

Well, horses for courses. Personally it would drive me nuts knowing that I would be paying off other peoples mortgages for the rest of my life.

[Cho-man]

How much %? Too much...

[MandM!]

Jmbf...did you buy in hk?