Virginia First Time Home Buyer

Programs and Resources

If you are a potential first time home buyer in Virginia, we welcome you! It is our utmost desire to assist you in reaching the goal of buying your first home. We've gathered the most helpful, beneficial resources together on this page to makes things as easy as possible for you.

You won't find a lot of ads, nor will you find a lot of fluff, just lots and lots of helpful first time home buyer information. If you haven't been there already, we suggest you visit our home page where you'll find a 16 step guide to buying your first home. Whether you realize it or not, you will accomplish each of the 16 steps listed, but you'll save time and avoid costly mistakes by simply using the information provided there. You can find our home page by clicking here: First Time Home Buyer.

We suggest you make those 16 steps your personal checklist for buying your first home. If so, be sure to bookmark the site so you can refer back to it often.

While you are working on those 16 steps, you'll also want to check what is available for first time home buyer financial programs in Virginia. The first place to start in that search is the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development. They provide generous assistance to first time home buyers in the form of grants to help with the down payment as well as closing costs.

The Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development has a Down Payment Assistance program (DPA) for eligible home buyers to help with down payment and closing cost assistance. The DPA program also has “gap financing” programs for homeownership and the development of affordable housing.  Check and see what is available....

To visit the website of the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development simply click on the highlighted text. In certain situations they also will provide zero interest loans as well as provide loans for the down payment for first time home buyers. It is a great program for first time home buyers and is worth investigating. Simply go to their website above for complete information.

We will be adding more resources to this page as we discover them and/or they become available to first time home buyers in Virginia, so please do bookmark this site and check back often! In the meantime, please do look around and get the most of the information that is here.