Berkeley is the university city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay, famous for the UC Berkeley campus and for streets of brown-shingle and Craftsman homes that climb from the flats into the Berkeley Hills. We help Berkeley buyers, homeowners and investors with jumbo, conventional and multi-unit financing, refinances and equity lines. Pacific National Lending provides home loans in Berkeley for every kind of buyer: first-timers, move-up families, relocating professionals, veterans and investors. As a mortgage broker, we compare conventional, FHA, VA, USDA and jumbo programs across multiple lenders and recommend the one that costs you the least over the time you plan to own the home.
Call Pacific National Lending for home loans in Berkeley: (916) 526-2700
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Berkeley is one of the most competitive markets in the Bay Area, with homes commonly selling far above list price, so buyers need a fully underwritten pre-approval and a lender who can close fast with few contingencies. Most homes are close to a century old, which puts foundations, seismic work and appraisal condition in play, and duplexes, backyard cottages and rent-controlled multi-unit buildings each have their own financing rules. Conventional loans in Berkeley start at 3 percent down for qualified buyers, FHA allows 3.5 percent down with more flexible credit, VA offers zero down for eligible veterans and service members, and jumbo loans cover purchases above the conforming loan limit for Alameda County. We walk you through each option with real payment figures.
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Housing includes brown-shingle and Craftsman homes in Elmwood, Claremont and North Berkeley, period-revival homes in Thousand Oaks, bungalows in Westbrae and South and West Berkeley, view homes in the Berkeley Hills, and condos near downtown and campus. We have closed home loans on nearly every kind of Berkeley property, so we know which lenders are comfortable with which homes and how to keep an appraisal or a condition request from delaying your closing. Most purchase loans fund in about three weeks from an accepted offer.
If your credit, income or down payment is not quite where it needs to be, we will tell you exactly what would change the outcome and how long it might take, and then we will keep in touch. Many of our Berkeley clients started with a plan six months before they bought.
Our home loans clients in Berkeley come from Elmwood, Claremont, North Berkeley, Berkeley Hills and every other part of the East Bay. Berkeley is about an hour and forty minutes from our Gold River office via I-80.
Ready to talk about home loans in Berkeley? Call (916) 526-2700 or apply online in a few minutes. There is no credit pull at the first step and no obligation.
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