The Home Buying Institute has been educating first-time buyers in the United States since 2006. We’ve become known as a trusted name in consumer education, with a reputation for providing unbiased and accurate information.
Now, we are proud to offer the 2024 First-Time Home Buyer Handbook. Download this 65-page e-book today to increase your chances of success when buying your first house.
The home buying and mortgage process can be complicated and lengthy. As a result, first-time buyers often end up confused, frustrated, and unsuccessful. This guide gives you the knowledge you need to avoid this fate.
Our 2024 first-time home buyer guide breaks the process down into a series of 10 steps. It starts with budgeting and market research, and ends with the final closing process.
Buying a home is serious business, especially when you consider that the median home price in many U.S. cities is currently north of $400,000.
Because of this, you need access to reliable information prior to purchasing a home. And that’s what our 2024 first-time home buyer guide delivers.
Here are five more reasons to download a copy:
We’ve been helping first-time buyers succeed since 2006. In that time, we have received countless questions on a wide range of topics.
This experience gives us unique insight into the questions and challenges first-time home buyers have. We used that knowledge to make this guide more useful.
Here’s something that might surprise you.
Many of the “educational” websites geared toward home buyers are owned by real estate or mortgage companies that profit from home sales or mortgage origination. This makes them a biased source of information.
HBI is different. Our business model is built around providing truthful, accurate, and objective information to first-time home buyers like you. We are not affiliated with any real estate or mortgage company.
Check us out online. You’ll find thousands of citations and mentions relating to the Home Buying Institute, dating back more than a decade.
At 65 pages, this is a slim and accessible reference guide. But it’s also jam-packed with the information first-time home buyers need to know in order to be successful.
The 2024 buyer’s guide explains how to prepare for the process, how to research your local market, how to choose the right type of mortgage loan, how to make a strong offer to the seller … and a lot more.
Real estate transactions and mortgage loans can be highly complex. We know from experience that many first-time home buyers find it to be overwhelming.
This guide provides a cure for information overload. It’s written in a reader-friendly manner, simplifying complex topics into easily “digestible” chunks. It uses plain language and plenty of examples to help you absorb key points.
The home buying process can change over time due to a variety of factors. As a result, “hard copy” handbooks tend to become out of date and less accurate over time.
We update our first-time home buyer guide quarterly (at least) to ensure that it offers accurate and relevant information. We also perform “spot updates” anytime a new policy, market change, or development occurs that might affect home buyers.
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