New Home Construction Loans 101
When you are ready to build your first home or that dream home
that you have been wanting for so long you will probably wind up
needing help with the financial part of the building process.
The funding for your new home is available through new home
construction loans. Both owners and builders can use construction
loans, although some lenders are a bit hesitant about
lending to first time homebuilders.
Construction loans are a homebuilders dream funding. This loan
may or may not include the cost of the land used to build your
home on. These loans set up a line of credit that will pay
suppliers and sub contractors as the building process goes
along. This will make both workers happy because they do not
have to wait until the completion of the home to be paid for
their services. A new home construction loan will be set up in
monthly stages or into stages where specific portions of the
building process are finished. During these stages, a
construction draw will be organized that will state the amount
of funds that were used during that specific time period. The
construction draw is then given to the lender so that payment to
the building workers can be executed. A residential mortgage is
required before you apply for a construction loan and must be
presented to the lender you choose before the building process
begins.
A stated income construction loan is a loan in which the funding
will be provided to help you build the home of your dreams. This
type of loan does not require any verification of your income.
With stated income construction loans you are
either having trouble verifying your income or you choose to not
submit that information to the lender. Either scenario is
acceptable with this type of construction loan. An individual
who is self employed is a great example of a borrower of a
stated income construction loan. These loans work just like
other construction loans and your assets and employment will
both be verified. The interest rate of these loans may be higher
than that of other new home construction loans because of the
risk involved with borrowers whose income is not verified. The
down payment for such a loan may also be higher than that of a
traditional construction loan. The advantage of a stated income
loan, besides the no verification of income, is that these loans
are approved at a faster rate than other new home construction
loans.