20 downpayment: 20% Down Payment Becoming a Rare Sight
- 02/23/07 10:50 PM
This article recently emailed to me was amazing news to be awrae of.Ā I saw it happening in my own business, but wasn't aware of the satistics. Fewer buyers are making down payments on their purchase of a new home, and even fewer are forking over the 20-percent sum that was once the norm, according to a new study by the California Association of REALTORSĀ®.Nationwide, nearly 30 percent of buyers and 45 percent of first-time buyers nationwide no longer make down payments, the study said.In California, the trend is less pronounced. While 41 percent of home buyers there put nothing down, a (1 comments)