Despite rising home prices, the typical homebuyer's down payment fell for the first time in five months in December, data shows.

Does it make good financial sense to raid your retirement for a home purchase?

Investing your down payment savings can help you buy a home sooner, but deciding where to put it is all a matter of math.

After years of record-breaking home price appreciation, it’s gotten harder and harder to achieve the gold-standard down payment of 20% for a house. So hard, that many potential buyers have decided to ...

Mortgage experts explain the guidelines buyers must follow to get approved when using such funds to buy a home.

Ask most people what is an acceptable down payment on a house, and 9 times out of 10, they’ll tell you it’s 20% of a home’s selling price. So you do the math—and realize you’d have to put down $50,000 ...

A crypto crash, like the one that just happened to bitcoin, is jarring, but it doesn't have to derail your path to homeownership.

Despite growing attention around all-cash transactions, most Americans — especially first-time buyers — continue to finance their home purchases, according to new data from the National Association of ...

This little known program has no down payment or credit score requirements, making housing more affordable for low to middle income buyers. Money After moving 26 times in 31 years, I finally found a ...

California's Dream For All program is reopening applications next month, offering down payment assistance to eligible ...