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The Rational Reminder Podcast · 2025-05-22 · 67 min · 12,741 words

Episode 358 – Dr. Eli Beracha: Renting versus Buying a Home

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This is the Rational Reminder Podcast, a weekly reality check on sensible investing and financial decision-making from two Canadians. We are hosted by me, Benjamin Felix, Chief Investment Officer at PWL Capital, and Dan Bordelotti, portfolio manager at PWL Capital. Good to be back. We had a very interesting guest today. We're joined by Dr.

Ellie Bracha. He studies real estate. He's a finance professor, but his main research focuses on real estate. We talked to him about one aspect of his real estate research, which is renting versus buying a home.

He's got a bunch of papers on that. He's got a bunch of papers on other real estate topics too, but we focused on this one. So he's been in this field for 20 years, both academically and with practical experience as well. serving as a consultant for large real estate funds. He's advised on development projects.

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