In some real estate markets, the close-in DC Metro area being one of them, the market is strong enough that sellers will not accept an offer contingent on the sale of the potential buyers current home. Sellers figure in a strong market, why should they accept an offer based on a buyer that has a house to sell, and who knows if the buyers are realistic, will price it to sell, and will do all the right things to market and sell it quickly. So sellers wait to get a non-contingent offer, because they know one will come along soon enough.

As a result, I get some buyers who ask me to get them qualified to buy a new home, without the new loan being contingent on the sale of the current home they own. Read the rest of this entry »