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San Francisco First Time Home Buyers Guide

By
Real Estate Agent with Zephyr Real Estate

Thinking of buying San Francisco Real Estate? Then please take a moment to take a look at the guide we've published for first time home buyers in San Francisco. We've broken the process down into 10 easy steps, beginning with assembling your real estate team to closing the purchase transaction and moving in to your new home. Along the way we do our best to cover everything that you should expect in the average San Francisco home purchase process. 

Because prices in San Francisco are so high, buying real estate for the first time can be a particularly nerve-racking experience for a first time buyer, which is why we've laid out a clear road map about how the process works (including local customs) and what you should expect from your mortgage broker and buyer's agent during the real estate purchase process in San Francisco. For those of you that are more visually oriented, we've also included a step-by-step graphical flowchart of the home purchase process in San Francisco. 

Wonder what escrow is? What strategies to use to get your offer accepted? Want to know when your offer or counter offer is considered to be binding and accepted? When do you need to bring money to the proverbial table? In addition to covering all of those items, we also cover contract contingencies that are common in San Francisco, inspections that many buyers choose to have, and the appraisal and financing contingency, which are of particular importance these days since the underwriting standards for real estate loans have changed so dramatically in the past several years.

We will also be assembling all of the information in a downloadable PDF file, but for the time being we've broken the process into easily digestible (we hope) chunks of information, each on their own page.  We hope you find our first time buyer guide for the San Francisco real estate market to be useful, we look forward to hearing your feedback and suggestions for how we can make it better!