Residential Construction Loan Mortgages

The Methods Of Aquiring Residential Construction Loan And Mortgages

For a long time your thoughts have been revolving around building your own beautiful home, a dream come true.  You have already identified the location and put in a neat nest-egg for the purchase of the land, but you are not sure how to manage the finance needed for the building of that dream home.  Not to worry! You can avail a residential construction loan without too much of a hassle.

Construction facilities are short term loans, meant to tide over the period in which your house will be under construction.  Since the period is intended to be short depending upon your construction schedule, chances are that the load of interest payment for the said period may not be too heavy, say about $250 if you are contemplating upon a loan of say $200,000 or so, which you can easily factor in the construction cost.

This is because basically, you will be only paying interest on the building loans till your home is completely built and you have obtained a certificate of occupancy for the same.  It is only then that the interest payment will become payable. 

Another important point contributing to the low interest amount is that usually, the lender will work out a schedule in consultation with you and the loan will be disbursed in parts in sync with the stages of completion of the construction of your house.  Only the loan amount actually disbursed to you will start interest accrual from the time of disbursal. The rates of interest on construction loans are not standard like mortgage loans.

The lender will typically charge interest commensurate with the prime lending rate.  It will be somewhat in line with short term rates of interest in vogue.

You could also explore the option of construction-to-permanent financing which will help you to get easier mortgage terms or lower long term rates from the lender though the interest rate on the short term construction loans could be a little higher in this case.