When you’ve found a home you love that’s priced within your budget, it’s time to make an offer. To make an offer on a home, you and your real estate agent draw up and give to the seller a document called a purchase contract. The Purchase Contract Your real estate Read more…
Before you start house hunting, you should have a good idea what size and type of mortgage you want and can afford. Thinking about mortgages early on in the process, and getting either prequalified or preapproved for a mortgage, will improve your house-hunting efficiency and your ability to close the Read more…
Few home buyers are wealthy enough to pay the entire purchase price of a home up front. Instead, most pay a down payment, a percentage of the total purchase price of the home, and get a mortgage loan to cover the rest of the expense of buying the home. Mortgages Read more…