Novato is Marin County's northernmost city, with a small-town Old Town along Grant Avenue, oak-covered hills and the redeveloped Hamilton neighborhood on the former Air Force base. We help Novato buyers and homeowners with high-balance and jumbo purchase loans, refinances, reverse mortgages and equity lines. Shopping for a home loan in Novato means more than finding the lowest advertised rate. Points, lender fees, mortgage insurance and the loan program itself all change what you actually pay, and PNL lays those numbers out side by side so you can make a confident choice.
Call Pacific National Lending for home loans in Novato: (916) 526-2700
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Novato is the most attainable entry point into Marin County, which brings in move-up families from Sonoma County and buyers priced out of southern Marin. Even so, most purchases require high-balance conforming or jumbo financing, and the city's many condo and townhome communities need a lender who checks HOA approval before an offer is written. The loan program that fits an Novato purchase often depends on the property as much as the borrower. Condos need lender-approved projects, older homes must meet FHA and VA condition standards, and rural parcels may qualify for USDA financing. We check these details before you write an offer, not after.
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Housing includes 1950s to 70s ranch homes in central Novato and San Marin, newer homes and townhomes at Hamilton and Pointe Marin, golf-course homes around Marin Country Club, wooded lots in Indian Valley and Pacheco Valle, and waterfront homes in Bel Marin Keys. We have closed home loans on nearly every kind of Novato 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 Novato clients started with a plan six months before they bought.
We help borrowers with home loans throughout Novato, including Hamilton, San Marin, Old Town Novato, Marin Country Club, and across northern Marin County. Novato is about an hour and forty minutes from our Gold River office via I-80 and Highway 37.
For home loans in Novato, call Pacific National Lending at (916) 526-2700 or use the secure application on this page. A licensed loan officer will follow up within one business day.
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