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New Home Construction - Financing Options

Posted on 4/18/18 at 5:14 pm
Posted by 22jctiger22
Member since Apr 2013
368 posts
Posted on 4/18/18 at 5:14 pm
My wife and I are planning to build a home within the next few years on a lot that we own and I'd like to get some thoughts about potential financing options from those in finance or from those that may have been a similar situation. We are in the very beginning stages of planning so we haven't gotten into any serious discussions with any builders/lenders. We own the lot outright and it is likely worth $300K. We owe approximately $90K (3.375% rate) on our current home and it's likely worth $275K. We've been trying to pay off our current home before building a new one, but I'm not sure that's the right thing to do with interest rates rising.

Since we haven't selected a house plan yet, we really don't know how much we are going to spend on a build, but it's safe to say that we wouldn't finance more than $300K-$400K on the build maximum. We have some cash already set aside for construction costs and we're working on building those savings to minimize construction loan costs, but we definitely don't have enough cash to finance a complete build and will have to take out a construction loan at some point. Any thoughts or advice about how best to proceed from a financing prospective and what types of loan products would be best?
Posted by LZ83
La
Member since Sep 2016
17406 posts
Posted on 4/18/18 at 5:49 pm to
I got a construction loan from a local bank. When the build was done they just rolled it into a mortgage loan
Posted by ellunchboxo
Gtown
Member since Feb 2009
18801 posts
Posted on 4/18/18 at 7:24 pm to
+1

Sounds like you have quite a bit of equity so it shouldn’t be a problem.

Figure out what you want and go get some plans.
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