How To Buy a House Fast? smart tips to buy your dream home
Right now, many homebuyers are feeling some pressure to buy a house fast, fearing that mortgage rates (which have doubled from 3% to 6% in the past year alone) could rise even higher, upping the cost of financing a house. Yet buying a home can be a mind-numbingly slow process, broken up by periods of confusingly frantic activity. It goes something like this: Look at a zillion homes before you think you’ve found one. Hurry up and get in your offer … and then wait. Submit a million letters to the underwriter … and then wait. And don’t even get us started on closing. The average time for closing on a loan is 50 days, according to Ellie Mae, and the process can often take even longer. But sometimes you don’t have the luxury of waiting, and rising interest rates along with high home prices are just a few of the reasons a homebuyer might be in a rush. Maybe you’re moving from another state and need a place to live now. Or maybe your current home sold significantly faster than expected—and if