Real Estate Financing

There are several different types of loans you can get for real estate depending on what you want and who you are. The article Different Types of Real Estate Home Loans summarizes some of the most common types of loans available in today's market.

Financing real estate can be quite expensive so its very rare that real estate investors pay the entire amount of the purchase price in cash. Usually a large portion of the purchase if financed with financial instruments or debt. The amount of the purchase financed with debt is called leverage. Forbes' article Top 10 Sources of Funding entails a list of financing options for start-ups. For some more creative ways to finance real estate, this article states for other methods people use for financing.