Bridge Loans

  • We take contingent buyers and turn them into cash buyers who can close in 14 days.
  • Leverage your equity for the down payment on a new home.

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Benefits of Bridge Loan Financing

Buy a new home without selling your current residence and leverage your equity for the down payment.

Our Bridge Loan takes you from a contingent buyer to the equivalent of a cash buyer who can close in as little as 14 days. Don’t get stuck in your current home with no hope to buy a new home in today’s hot housing market. We can help!

 

With home bridge loan financing from Sammamish Mortgage, you’ll have the following benefits:

  • Utilize the equity in your home for the down payment on a new home before selling.
  • Avoid having to put your family in short term housing or live with family while trying to find/close on a new home.
  • Avoid having your offers rejected by sellers because of a contingency.
  • Become a cash buyer that can close in 14 days.
  • Be able to buy a new home without needing to sell your current home first.
  • Avoid selling your home only to have housing prices skyrocket before you buy a new home.

Not sure exactly what a bridge loan is, how it works, or how Sammamish Mortgage bridge loans are different? Here’s everything you need to know about home bridge loan financing.

What is a Home Bridge Loan?

A home bridge loan allows a move up buyer to purchase a new home without having to sell their current residence until after closing. In real estate terms, this allows you to buy a new home non-contingent on the sale of your current residence.

When you make an offer on a house that you can’t back up without selling your existing home, you usually have to include a contingency clause. This states that you can back out all the way up to closing if your current home doesn’t sell by that date.

What’s Wrong With Contingent Offers?

There’s nothing really “wrong” with contingent offers, from the homebuyer’s point of view. It lets you try and coordinate a home sale and a home purchase so you aren’t stuck in limbo after selling your house, trying to find someplace to live while you purchase a new one. It can also prevent you from closing on a new home and having to manage two mortgages until you can sell your other house.

The real issue is how sellers see your offer in a market as hot as they are right now. When the market is cold and homes are slow to sell with low competitiveness between buyers, a seller might just be glad to have an offer on the table that could come through. However, in a market low on inventory, offers for each available home are usually simultaneous and multiple, and this means sellers look at the ones with the least strings.

An offer with a contingency clause is likely to be passed over quickly, as no seller wants to tie themselves up with a buyer who reserves the right to back out at the last minute based on circumstances out of their control. This means that a contingent offer can kill your chances in a seller’s market.

Group 2029How Does a Typical Bridge Loan Work?

There are many different types of second mortgages or home equity lines of credit (HELOC) that are marketed as bridge loans. These are tied to your current home equity, and most buyers take them out to access capital for a down payment and closing costs on another home. A HELOC or second mortgage also usually can’t get rid of the necessity for a contingency.

In addition to not being particularly useful for solving the contingent offer problem, interest rates can be staggering for this kind of short term loan. A typical Seattle bridge loan lender will also take both the current and new mortgage into account for qualifying, which can significantly affect your debt-to-income (DTI) ratio and make it hard to qualify for a loan amount big enough to realistically meet your needs.

How Are Sammamish Mortgage Bridge Loans Different?

The Sammamish Mortgage bridge loan is a new short-term first lien on the new home you are purchasing. We are more flexible, and only take the new mortgage into consideration when calculating the debt-to-income ratio. This dramatically increases the reach of our home bridge loan financing as an option for buying a new home while selling your current one.

Once your new purchase closes, Sammamish Mortgage will begin the process of setting up your permanent financing. As soon as your previous property sells, we will finalize a refinance of the bridge loan into a long-term conventional mortgage. This means everything happens seamlessly and you can go from living in your previous home to living in your new one with a minimum of hassle.

Our home bridge loan financing program is currently available for properties located in Seattle as well as the rest of Washington State, Oregon, Colorado, Idaho & California. You can reach our expert team of Seattle bridge loan lenders at 425-401-8787.

Realtors: if you have buyers that are currently stuck making contingent offers, give us a call and we can discuss this option in greater detail.

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The Sammamish Mortgage Difference

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No outsourcing with in-house underwriting
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Our team of loan officers are on call 7 days a week
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Close in 3 weeks or less
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Sammamish Mortgage vs. the Competition
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Compare over 20 banks, lenders and investors from our network in seconds
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No lender fees, big Loan Officer commissions or junk fees
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No outsourcing with in-house underwriting
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Real-time custom rates and costs available online 24/7
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Our team of loan officers are on call 7 days a week
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Underwritten Pre-approvals
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Who is Sammamish Mortgage?

We proudly serve customers in the Pacific Northwest region. If you’re looking to buy a home in one of these states, we can help!

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Our Reviews

Hardik Shah
May 31, 2023
Nick, Tonya and Cory were great and really helped with answering all the questions and keeping the entire process transparent. Everything went smoothly and were able to close early! Would recommend!
Michael H
May 31, 2023
Absolutely the best experience Ive had with a lender in my 35 years of buying property.
Jayson M
May 30, 2023
Sammamish Mortgage was an overwhelmingly positive experience! For anybody out there that prizes transparency, professionalism and promptness, I couldn't have been more impressed in working with Trevor and Tonya. I reached out to Sammamish without much experience with local markets and Trevor was the first person I spoke to. He was attentive and informative with every random question I had. In addition, as a working professional, I can appreciate their accommodation with a variety of communication needs. We were able to communicate mostly through email and I ALWAYS had a response within a few hours, even on weekends. I was able to be in a position to close early as well as work with them around dates that I would be out of town, etc. This promptness was key in securing our loan early! I was also fortunate enough to get to work with Tonya during the underwriting process, and similarly both she and Trevor made the lending process as smooth as possible. Her promptness, professionalism, and communication turned an inherently stressful process into (much to my surprise), the most consistent/easy part of the home-buying process. Would very much recommend!
Jessica Triana
May 26, 2023
Trevor and Suzanne were incredibly professional and motivated throughout the lending process. We will gladly refer Sammamish to family and friends!
Rachel F
May 17, 2023
Sammamish Mortgage was great to work with, they answered all our questions in a timely manner, gave good advice in this market, and helped us get a great deal.
Richard Thatcher
May 16, 2023
Great job by Sammamish once again. Start to finish they are the most customer-oriented mortgage company sit whom I have worked. Five star all the way
Andrew Small
May 10, 2023
I recently worked with Sammamish Mortgage to secure a mortgage for my new condo, and I couldn't be happier with the experience. From start to finish, the team at Sammamish Mortgage was knowledgeable, professional, and extremely helpful. They were upfront about all of the costs associated with the mortgage, and they took the time to explain everything in detail so that I fully understood what I was getting into. They were also very responsive whenever I had questions or concerns, which made the whole process feel much less stressful. Overall, I would highly recommend Sammamish Mortgage so If you're in the market for a mortgage, definitely give them a call!

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