Buyers and Sellers Can Win With 2-1 Buydowns

As home sales slow, price reductions soar, and mortgage rates increase, motivated sellers and builders are leveraging interest rate buydown incentives to make their homes more attractive and affordable.

 

This type of mortgage assistance may help offset the impacts of the market cool down, bridging the gap between what sellers want or need and what buyers are willing or able to pay. A win-win for both parties.

 

The idea is straightforward: Sellers and builders can make their home listings more attractive to buyers by lowering the buyer’s monthly mortgage payments. This financing strategy of sellers and builders paying money upfront to the buyer's lender in exchange for a temporary reduction in the mortgage interest rate is known as a 2-1 buydown.

 

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