5 Minutes in Real Estate
5 Minutes in Real Estate
5 Minutes in Real Estate
First-Time Home Buyers Continue to Put Down Less Than 6%!
8 minutes Posted Jul 16, 2018 at 1:54 pm.
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According to the Realtors Confidence Index from the National Association of Realtors, 61% of first-time homebuyers purchased their homes with down payments below 6% in 2017.
Many potential homebuyers believe that a 20% down payment is necessary to buy a home and have disqualified themselves without even trying, but in March, 71% of first-time buyers and 54% of all buyers put less than 20% down.
Ralph McLaughlin, Chief Economist and Founder of Veritas Urbis Economics, recently shed …