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Your home buying journey

We help you along the way home.

Buying a home raises a lot of questions, and the down payment is often the biggest one. DownPaymentMap helps at each step: find the assistance programs that cover the place you want to buy, learn how each one works, and know what to ask a lender. Every fact links to the official source it came from.

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Three steps

How to get started

  1. Learn how it works

    Start with a plain-language guide to what down payment assistance is and how it works.

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  2. Compare the programs

    See each program, who runs it and what kind of help it is. Its page shows every published figure with its source. North Carolina is reviewed first; more states follow.

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  3. Talk with a participating lender

    A lender that takes part in these programs can tell you which ones fit your situation and how to apply.

Tyler Thompson

Meet the author

Tyler Thompson

Tyler Thompson holds real estate licenses in North Carolina and South Carolina and chooses the down payment assistance programs DownPaymentMap covers.

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