Vacation Property Financing

Funding a holiday property

The majority of vacation cottages come with all the costs of a home abode, to include mortgages capital and interest, property tax, homeowner assurance, utility companies, and the costs of servicing and repair. Furthermore, your holiday home may require new equipment and floor coverings, paintings and sealings, furniture, lights, windows treatment and additional insurances (e.g. cyclone or flooding insurance).

It is important to consider all these costs - both for your main house and for your holiday home - in order to establish whether a second property is affordable. A lot of the pleasure of having a holiday home is wasted when it becomes a strain (or a serious cash pit). When it turns out that the purchase of a holiday home is affordable, you have to choose how you will be paying for it.

When you buy a home, an FHA-insured credit is perfect as it will require a down pay of only 3.5%. However, these mortgages are not available for second home buyers, so you may need to consider other choices. When you are in the money to do this, cashing in is the simplest way to buy a holiday home.

As many holiday home purchasers are generally older and in a more convenient financially position, buying in hard currency is quite frequent. The National Association of Realtors (NAR) Investment and Vacation Home Buyer's Survey of 2017 revealed that 29% of holiday home purchasers were paying full money for their property purchase, as were 36% of private equity holders.