r/HouseBuyers

100 years of property value returns: 5% annually. This is 25% returns when using 20% down.

Buying stocks isn’t a bad thing, but don’t pretend it’s an investment. It’s not.

It’s a lifestyle decision.

First time home buyer here! The average 2bed 1bath house in my area (that isn’t in pieces) starts about 300K. My spouse and I make about 5000 a month after taxes. We have car payments and childcare expenses that make our budget EXTREMELY tight. Any ideas of grants that could help us out?? All help is appreciated!!!

Higher mortgage rates, economic uncertainty and uneven supply are weighing on the market.

Buying a condo in Florida. It had been in the market for a while and I looked at it last year with a random Realtor I got by clicking a link on Realtor.com. Saw it was off the market this year and reached out to the owners. We agreed on a sale price.

Question-is the former Real Estate Agent owed anything?

We’re buying a house where the Current owners did an extension in 2021. Planning granted for two storey side extension but they only built the ground floor. (There’s a picture of the upstairs plan on the listing) One of the enquiries we’ve raised is ‘are the foundations sufficient to build above the current extension’ and they’ve come back with a bit of an arsy reply basically saying they don’t know.

I have no experience of extensions whatsoever.

Can anybody with knowledge on this tell me. If we are being unreasonable asking for this.

The building regs completion cert they provided is for a single storey extension so how am I to know if the foundations were signed off as single story or double story foundations.

They seem to have skimped and scraped a bit by the looks of it so I’m naturally worried if they did this one properly.

What proof can we ask for?

I'm in process to buy property in Mexico. That's hard or easy ?

My partner and I are in need of a new, larger place, and we're leaning heavily towards buying and not renting. Her credit is phenomenal and mine is... improving. That being said, I also need to get a new (used) car for myself. From what I understand, the conventional wisdom is not to make any major credit purchases for a considerable amount of time before trying to get pre-qualified for a mortgage, but... how long? If I snag a loan for a used car around October, how much longer would we need to wait to see about a mortgage? Or is it better to try to get the mortgage first and then go after an auto loan later?