Knowing how home buying and mortgage lending works gives you many
advantages.
Such knowledge will:
Save time and make it easier to work with all the professionals
involved.
Give you more confidence about what to expect.
Enable you to go through the process with less stress and worry.
Increase your chances for success in achieving the dream of
home ownership.
Three Stages of Home Buying
The graphic below shows the stages of the home buying process. Click
the tabs to see the tasks involved in each stage. Then, click each
task to learn more about it.
The next topic explores the Preparation stage of the process in
more detail.