What Canadians Should Keep In Mind for a Buying Home in Florida?

Posted by Qflorida on January 8th, 2015

Buying home is a complicated process, it requires a lot of help.You need to gather a lot of information and ideas before actually buying a home in Florida.

Purchasing a house is a tedious task. It frequently requires a lot of work and puts a tremendous amount of pressure on your time and finances. We have provided a summary below of the issues that impact Canadians buying in Florida.  You need to keep following things in mind before buying a home in Florida.

Get your financing in place –While purchasing a home, you must be careful about understanding the financing process. Check out the general financing conditions and interest rates both in Canada and the US.  As a Canadian, you might not be able to get US financing.

Know the general economic situations-Explore what similar properties have sold for in the course of the last three to six months. You can look at charts over the last year to see if prices are trending higher or lower.  If they do not meet your expectations, look in other areas.  You must stick to buying a Florida home based on your budget and financing conditions.  Wait for a deal if you have to.

Sit and wait for the right price -Land prices move together for a general area but within that area prices can move higher and lower than the average over time.  Feel free to wait for prices in some areas to be just right, sometimes you can wait for a desperate seller or a quick sale.  However, some people just end up waiting for a long time waiting for the right price and in that time, prices have increased a lot.

The benefits of buying a home that is already built and has been lived in is that you can see it and how it looks and it is in a developed area.  If you are buying a pre-construction house, then you don’t know how it will look finished.  Make sure you know the builder well if you are buying pre-construction.

In case you're purchasing a townhouse to rent it out, many lenders will have special rules for you, especially if you are renting out the home.  Lenders typically want more than 50% equity in the home, if you are not the primary resident and if you are renting it out.

Many UK buyers are put off by the travel time to Florida which can be about 8 hours from London to Florida.  For Canadians, the travel time is a lot less.  As the US economy as of late has rebounded and the long-standing falling property prices reached an end, numerous businesses in Florida are starting to better now and are growing, which is good for the local economy and the citizens living there. Many of the UK and Canadian buyers that purchased it at the bottom of the downturn are now benefiting from rising Florida real estate prices and the rising US dollar.

Here are few convenient options for Canadians while buying home in Florida-

The Gulf Coast -This is considered as on the most beautiful place to live.

The Atlantic Coast - Florida's Atlantic Coast extends from St Augustine through Daytona Beach, Fort Lauderdale and Miami, directly down through the Florida Keys to Key West. It incorporates some of North America's most attractive (and lavish) areas, for example, Palm Beach, where costs routinely rushed to a huge number of dollars.

About the Author:

This article was written by Mike Smith of Qflorida.com. Qflorida.com provides their Canadian customers complete information for buying the property, vacation home in Florida, US. They give free guide to helping Canadians get information on Florida real estate – financing, foreclosures, mortgages, taxes, and other tips.