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To buy home first time is an exciting & a little confusing as well. You are
to under go physical, mental and financial exercise before buying home. To avoid disappointments, there are some key points you are to keep in mind before coming to property scene.

Home Purchase Loan

While buying home - You are to consider your budget first. How much you have
as bank deposit and how much your lender is willing to give you? Your lending
amount will be entirely upon your income, debts, savings etc. Before lender
gives finance to you he will definitely see how much your income is stable?
Changing jobs frequently in the past will give negative impact upon your credit
history. If you are to buy some car also, postpone this idea for some time, as
your debts for car will effect upon your amount of lending for house. Because
buying house is a big investment. There are different types of mortgages
available in the market : fixed interest, variable rate, 25 year duration, 35
year duration etc. If you are not sure about which is suitable for you, ask your
independent financial adviser. He will help you to come out from this problem.

Survey the area before buying home

Now after setting your budget, you are to survey the area suitable to you to
buy a house with this budget as well. As rates in some areas may not be up to
your reach. So start hunting with real estate agents, newspapers & of course
directly go to the signboards “For Sale” where owner wants to sell directly.

While selecting your dream home, many things you are to keep in mind:

• - Legal Formalities of your new home

  Checking legal documents of the house is very important to avoid getting

  cheated. If you are unaware of these formalities, take help of real estate

  agent or any legal advisor.

• - Home location should be near to your workplace

  Don’t take house very far from your work place. Ask neighbors also about

  purchasing that house. Drive yourself to that place and see what is happening

  in night (means any loud sounds or music which may be disturbing). See views

  from front back, left right and of course in night and daylight.

• - Sewerage system of new home

  Daylight in the house, sewerage system and rainwater outlets are of utmost
  importance while surveying any house to purchase. See if rooms are well
  lighted, gutters & sewerage system is maintained. Provision of rainwater
  outlets are outwards from house. Any pits in back yard or front yards.

• - Building standards of your home
  Make sure that your dream house meets building standards and there is not
  any nasty or hidden expenses in the brickwork. See roofs also, if all are
  intact. Doors & windows are in good condition. Paint of the house is not
  chipped. Flooring of the house, if wooden, it may not be stained, sometimes
  stains are covered under the bed or carpets. So visit to a vacant house is
  necessary.
• - Resale value of your home

  You are not going to live in this house for rest of your life. If you want
  to sell it in future, what may be the outcome. Everybody wants some plus after
  some time. If it can be sold without any hitch. If there are any negative
  points for reselling that house. Otherwise you will be struck with that house
  for long time.

• - Repair expenses of your home

  If some major repairs are to be done, who is going to bear the expenses?
  Seller or buyer. Settle down all these things on paper to avoid any
  disappointments.

• - Renovation costs of your home

  Your prospective house meets your requirements? Are you able to change it
  according to your needs? Suppose any tree is there and can you cut it if
  required. You can get a Home Improvement loan too to cover up renovation
  costs.

• - Make an Offer

  Imagine yourself in that house after making your necessary changes. How
  you would feel? If you think it fits into your budget and your needs, go
  ahead, make an offer and settle all papers legally.

Marc Sylvester is a freelance writer and a
House Loan expert. Visit
MyhomeAdvise.com to get tips and
tricks on how to get equity home loan at lowest rate.

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For the last few years home prices have been rising about as quickly as gas prices. The market has already priced out a sizeable chunk of Americans, and as prices continue to climb, more potential homeowners are going to get left out in the cold.

Good news! The same builders who have been raising prices and banking record profits are about to get caught by their own greed. New home inventories are reaching record levels, and there are even more in the construction pipeline.

What does all this mean? It means supply is exceeding demand, and that means a buyers market may be on the way.

Interest rate hikes are putting the squeeze on buyers, raising minimum monthly payments on homes they could have afforded when rates were lower. The result is, buyers can’t afford to make the payments on the houses builders have in inventory, and they won’t be able to afford the ones that are in construction now.

The solution? There’s only one viable road the builders can take, and that’s to offer discounts. Tossing in pricy extras for free, the stategy they are taking now, isn’t going to help get a overstreached buyer into a home; they have to lower prices.

Builders are currently playing a high stakes game of chicken with buyers. First they claimed there was no bubble, and now they claim the market is simply cooling. Nice PR, but don’t buy it. The Fed would rather let the housing market take a hit now, than let inflation destroy the economy. The more rates rise, the harder it gets to sell homes. There’s already nine months worth of inventory. Who wants to bet the builders are willing to let that hit 18-24 months?

So inventories are rising, prices are rising, property taxes are rising, and interest rates are rising. Guess what else is also rising? Mortgage defaults. Ouch! Uncle Sam is going to be coming to market with a barge load of homes all over the country, and he could care less about making a profit, he just wants out. What’s that cracking noise? Someone snapping?

By early fall, builders, speculators, private sellers, the banks, and Uncle Sam are going to be fighting over buyers. That’s a game of chicken none of them are going to win. Prices are going to fall; how hard, and how fast remains to be seen.

As a buyer, there are two things you need to look at: will rates rise too high, and eat up any discount a builder may give, or will prices fall faster than rates rise and provide you with a better deal?

A third factor that many people forget to figure in is inflation. If prices on goods and services rise due to increasing gas prices, this leaves less money in the budget. Credit becomes more expensive as rates rise, and savings dip to cover the extra costs that already stretched paychecks can’t meet.

While this may seem like bad news for buyers, it is worse news for builders, investors, and banks. Home sales slump, mortgage applications dry up, and the entire industry looks to the Fed to save it. Flash back to the early 1980’s. Everyone’s looking to sell a home, and no one can afford to buy one.

So which is it going to be? A buyer’s market or a seller’s profit buffet? Let your cell phone be your guide. The more aggressive real estate agents get, the harder it is for them to make a sale. If they are not calling you several times per day, seven days per week, they have enough buyers to go around. When you phone won’t stop ringing, and the agents are camped in front of your doorstep, then you know they are hungry.

This is one time when a wait and see attitude may wind up paying off big. The real estate PR guys may be calling this “cooling,” but buyers are going to call it what it is; good news.

Chris Yarbrough writes for the eBay-Guides.com His home buying guides can be viewed here.

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A couple of years ago my wife and I were in the process of selling our house. We were pretty sure we had found a buyer and had agreed on a price acceptable to both them, and us but they wouldn’t be able to buy our house for about three months. My wife and I were totally ok with this since we weren’t in any particular hurry to move, we just wanted to move into a bigger home outside of town, somewhere a bit more rural.

Well, one weekend while we were driving around the countryside looking at houses, we saw the perfect farmhouse. It was exactly what we were looking for. Not too far out of town, on a quiet road, overlooking a little lake and surrounded by tall oak trees. In short it was perfect.

We contacted the selling agent and found out that the price was within our budget, but only just. We told him it would be three months before we’d be able to buy it and this caused him to pause. Apparently there was a lot of interest in that little house and he couldn’t justify delaying the sale for three months. So we let it go.

Why a Bridging Loan?

We did find another beautiful house so the story has a happy ending but is there anything we could have done to get that first house? The answer, had we known it at the time, would have been a bridging loan. Bridging loans are short-term loans offered by commercial lenders to borrowers for a specific purpose. They can range in time from two weeks, for a very short loan, to up to three years for commercial bridging loans. Homebuyers who have not yet sold their property and wish to buy require these bridging loans.

Interest Rates

The interest rates are probably higher than for your typical mortgage but this is because of the added flexibility and convenience you have from the lender. There will also be set up fees involved. However, they may work out at significantly cheaper than some of the alternatives such as renting accommodation. There will also be many situations in which the price will be well worth paying if it means getting your dream home.

You should always shop around before agreeing to a bridging loan as rates and fees can vary significantly. You don’t have to get it from your mortgage provider although there may be advantages to doing so.

Joseph Kenny is the webmaster of the loan information sites http://www.selectloans.co.uk/ and also http://www.ukpersonalloanstore.co.uk. At the Personal Loan Store you can find all the different loan types explained.

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