What do you if the appraisal comes less than your offer on a house? I just made an offer and with interest rate increasing these last few days and houses price going slightly down, I am worried that the appraisal which is happening today will come less than my offered price (slightly higher than selling price) ! I don’t want to add extra money for the down deposit . This is my first time buying a property and it is nerve racking! Has anyone been in this situation and what did you do?

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As long as the appraisal isn't lower than what you're borrowing, you won't have to come up with the difference.

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It’s unlikely that appraisal values will move that fast. The appraisal is going to be based on recent home sales. Generally these will be sales in he past 90 days. They aren’t going to try to predict how interest rate changes might affect prices looking forward. You are much more likely to have an appraisal gap in a rising market than in a falling market.

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You pay for the difference or contact your lender, see if they can help to re-appraise the property. My appraiser have a good relationship with my lender, in the end, he adjusted a little according to the market

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It depends on your contract, the loan type, your down payment amount, and how much the short fall is.

1. If you have an appraisal contingency in the contract and the appraisal is short you can renegotiate the purchase price.

2. If you cant renegotiate the price and the appraisal is short 2 things would occur:

2a. Lets say you have a 100k purchase price with a 10% down payment ($90k loan amount) and the appraisal is short by $5k. You can still finance 90k but this case you would have a 5.2% down payment for the purposes of the loan (90K loan on a 95k value is about 94.8% Loan to value) which could affect your MI but you don't need to bring any more money.

2b. If the value is 90K and you were financing 90K now you need to drop your loan amount so that you are not bringing 0% down payment in which case you are basically paying all or some of the difference out of pocket.

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Appraisal came in 1k above my offer! I am glad I didn’t have to go through all that! Thank you all for your inputs !! Closing date is in 3 weeks but hoping to close sooner !! 🤩

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Your lender/realtor would know. But I believe you’d have to come up with the difference, which for me is a deal breaker.

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Option 1 is you increase cash at close to pay difference and get to the banks LTV. Option 2 - Assuming you have the right to back out of the deal during your DD, you can go back to the seller and renegotiate terms of the deal/price. This may cost you your DD fee and or your escrow if they say no and you back out. But depending on the market, they may be amenable to paying all or a portion of the increase cash at close (or reduce their sales price). Option 3 - you might be able to appeal the appraisal if you find better comps/calculations in their report

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My transactions are 3 for 3 with the house appraising exactly at purchase price! There is a buyer/agent conflict that banks select appraiser and get the loan of the appraiser agrees with the markedly rate that should benefit you. Also the market has been relatively stable the last 6 months so comps should be in line

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Dude VA appraisers are notorious for this. They do it so you can try to negotiate, but it just makes realtors not want to deal with VA offers

In many cases, if your appraisal comes in lower, then the lender won’t want to lend the entire amount and you have to come up with the rest on your own

I’ve had multiple scenarios where the house didn’t appraise as expected. There are options available to you once that happens.

Your agent should be able to help you estimate where the appraisal will fall based on what has closed within the last 90 days within 1 mile radius of the house, ideally with similar sq footage and amenities.

Long story short - cross that bridge when you get there. Don’t stress until you hear what the appraisal comes in at, and even then, you have options.

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