If your career is taking you to a new job out of state, you’ll have many details that will need to be worked out in a short amount of time. One of the biggest is finding a new home, which can be challenging even under the best of circumstances. But with the current seller’s market in many areas of the country, finding an affordable home can be difficult.
However, you can solve this problem far quicker than you ever anticipated with some careful planning and determination.
Start Looking at Online Listings
Even if you don’t have a significant amount of time before relocating for your new job, one of the fastest ways to get started on the hunt is by checking online listings. Go online and start looking at listings of homes in the area to which you are moving. Since the pandemic, more agencies are offering homes via virtual tours, so you may be able to find the home you want at a reasonable price while sitting at your computer.
Contact a Local Real Estate Agent
If you aren’t comfortable buying your home online, you may want to contact a local real estate agent to discuss your upcoming relocation. Since real estate agents can connect with other agents and offices across the country, they can put you in touch with trusted agents in your new location who have the right type of homes for sale and can help you find just what you want.
Temporary Housing
It’s never a good idea to rush into buying a new home, especially following a relocation. Instead, you may want to look into renting temporary housing. If possible, you might try to get a short-term lease of 3 to 6 months. Again, a real estate agent can help with this aspect of the relocation.
By choosing to rent before buying, you can settle into your job, get your family settled in as well, and then start looking for a new permanent place to call home. This will also enable you to ask locals about different areas and evaluate if you like the neighborhoods when looking for a home for sale.
Employer Relocation Assistance
Finally, many employers offer employees various types of relocation assistance. This can vary from financial compensation to providing company-owned temporary housing or having relationships with real estate companies to help relocating employees find homes to buy quickly. If your employer offers you such assistance, don’t hesitate to take all the help you can get during your relocation.
Though you may feel as if you are in a whirlwind as you get deeper into your job relocation, keeping these points in mind along the way will have you moving into a new home in your new state before you know it.
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