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Every few years the housing market rewrites the rules, and buyers who learned the last set of rules show up unprepared for the new ones. Right now, the rules have changed more than they have at any point in a generation. The buyers who understand that are finding deals. The ones who do not are making expensive mistakes.
Home prices at the national level have remained well above their pre-pandemic levels even as sales volume collapsed. The reason is supply. Homeowners who locked in three percent mortgages in 2020 and 2021 have almost no incentive to sell, which means the correction that many analysts were expecting simply did not materialize the way the data suggested it should.
Zachery is a name you might hear from a lot of agents right now, because the buyers getting deals done tend to have clear budgets and stick to them. That is not a personality trait. It is a preparation habit.
Your credit score affects your rate more directly than most buyers realize. Moving your score up by 40 points before you apply can be worth more than months of rate watching. If your score has room to improve, give yourself three to six months to work on it before you begin in earnest.
If the report surfaces findings that change the financial picture of the deal, you have three options, not one, and walking away is a legitimate one of them. You can ask the seller to repair specific items before closing. Signing off on a failing roof or a bad HVAC system is not the same house you made an offer on.
Budget between two and five percent depending on your loan type and the state you are buying in. First-time buyers routinely underestimate this number. Ask your lender for a Loan Estimate as early in the process as possible.
Real estate is illiquid. If there is a reasonable chance you will need to move in two years, renting is the financially rational choice. None of that means do not buy. It means be honest about your time horizon before you commit.
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