The most favorite place of many inhabitants of the planet Earth, of course, is the USA. The first thing that is required for living is a place to live. US real estate is not very expensive for about $ 50,000 you can buy a solid apartment. The United States favors the acquisition of residential or rental property, commercial premises, and land by foreign nationals.
The location of the house or apartment – a criminal area, conflicting neighbors, poor roads and communications, the absence of schools, hospitals, kindergartens, shops in the area – all this can greatly spoil your stay and affect the price of an apartment in the United States.
Before buying, check everything with the agent who will show housing. By the way, they will be the first to contact you, such agents have extensive experience in selling the area they like, established relationships with home owners and various government agencies that issue residence permits.
Most often, foreigners buy real estate for renting out – this is quite profitable, especially if the housing is located in an area for immigrants or one of the elite areas, because elite housing is always in demand, despite the crisis and other financial problems of the country. Dilapidated housing is also in good demand, which can be repaired and successfully leased to a tenant.
When buying, the amount for housing can be paid in part, a loan for the purchase of housing with the lowest interest and the larger the amount of the down payment, the lower the interest rate. Many use this by buying a home, repairing, renting out, and paying off the loan for payment, and there is still profit.
It is better to take a mortgage in America after you decide on the choice of real estate and preliminary agreements are signed. When making any transactions, carefully read the contract, the presence of your lawyer is required. Change the agent if he is dissatisfied with such a delay in the process, hastily signed papers often lead to bad consequences. Real estate laws in the US are very confusing and difficult to prove
To buy a good home, you can not do without the help of a realtor – an agent. They may work for an agency or for themselves and are called real estate agents. It is they who convey your wishes to all real estate agencies. But you should refuse an agent if he works on the side of the seller and with you, because. at the conclusion of the contract, your interests of the agent will be of little concern.
If, nevertheless, it was decided to purchase real estate on credit, then you will need to find a lender, if not, neither the strength nor the ability to look for a lender, then contact a financier. This person, for a good reward, will do all the work for you. There are very few financiers-fraudsters in the USA. competitors do not allow unscrupulous financiers to intercept clients from other countries, regardless of the amount of transactions.
Keep in mind, the US, as in any country, is always negotiable, especially when it comes to real estate. Also, when buying, try to pay the seller by bank transfer, so you are guaranteed to get a discount and a good attitude.
For example, only sellers of real estate pay sales taxes, these rules, as well as the tax rate, vary depending on the state and city of the United States. After buying real estate in the US, the buyer will face the payment of the Tax Fee.
The rate of this tax depends on the estimated value of the object and very often exceeds the real value of the completed purchase transaction, because. the government agent estimates the value of the resources from which the house could have been built at the time of the valuation. For non-payers of Tax Fee, there are severe sanctions – fines and forced sale at auction, in case of systematic non-payment of taxes, in favor of the state.
If the new owner wishes to rent out the property, he should be aware that he will be required to pay property rental tax, which is quite high and averages around 30%.
If the new owner, a non-US resident, decides to live independently in the purchased house and signs papers about this, the seller can count on a reduction in the tax rate. If a new buyer does not live in a house or apartment and does not rent out an object, this will not save him from another waste item – utility bills.
U.S. utility bills are quite high. This applies to both lawn mowing, infrastructure repairs in apartment buildings, electricity and water tariffs.
Last December, US existing property sales fell 1.5% from November and 34% from December 2021.
As noted, 4.02 million residential properties were sold in the United States last year. Thus, December turned out to be the worst sales month in the last 12 years. According to experts, the situation was worse only in November 2010, when the US was emerging from the mortgage crisis of 2007-2008, caused by a sharp increase in defaults on high-risk mortgage loans.
December was also the eleventh consecutive month of falling home sales, the longest period of steady decline since 1999.
The main reason for the drop in demand is high mortgage rates, which began to rise in the spring of 2022, and doubled by autumn. The situation is complicated by the lack of affordable housing in the secondary market due to high demand for it in the first two years of the pandemic. The average home price in this market increased by 2.3% last month compared to December 2021 to $366.9 thousand, this price is an all-time record for the last month of the year.