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Bridge Loans: Looking to Buy While You Are Selling?
Bridge Loans: Looking to Buy While You Are Selling?9/13/2018

older woman with head on hands smiling with a faded home behind herFirst and foremost, you can consider submitting an offer with a contingency. While this makes things easier on paper, it can affect the desirability of your offer - especially in afore-mentioned hot markets. Putting your current home up for sale first can mitigate some of this risk for the seller of your new home, but there will likely still be some sort of contingency in the event your home doesn’t sell or the sale falls through.

In order to put yourself in a position of strength at the negotiating table, you’ll want your house to be sold, and all contingencies from your buyers signed off prior to submitting your offer. Again, this is an ideal scenario, but not necessarily practical.

Enter the Bridge Loan:

A Bridge Loan is a short-term financing solution that allows you to finance two homes at once, temporarily.  Once you sell your current home, you pay off the temporary bridge loan and are left with the one mortgage on your new home.

Our mortgage partner American Family Funding offers two programs to secure your bridge financing:

  • The first is the Close with Confidence program, which is used when your current home is already pending sale, but not yet closed.  The equity from your current home is used to fund the purchase of your new home. This option can have a term as long as 3 months and can exclude the payment on your departing residence from your overall qualifications on your new home if the home is in contract.
  • The second option is the Debt Inclusive program, which doesn’t require that your departing residence is sold - only that it is listed for sale.  The term for this option can be as long as 4 months but includes all of the payments (current mortgage, bridge loan, new home) to be factored into your qualifications on your purchase.

Either way, you can get the equity out of your current home to facilitate your new home - without the seller looking askance at whether your offer is bonafide.  Add a pre-approval letter and you’ve put yourself as close to a cash buyer as possible without having to actually have cash on hand for the purchase. This puts you in a much better negotiation position with the seller and takes a load of the worry out of the gymnastics required when buying and selling at the same time.

Be sure to talk to our mortgage experts about what option might work best for you, and put yourself in the driver's seat for your next home purchase.



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