First Time Buyer in the San Francisco Bay Area

Steven Bui
5 min readMar 22, 2021
Photo by Phil Hearing on Unsplash

After house hunting for 9 weeks, it’s clear that the San Francisco Bay Area is a difficult market to buy a single family house for a first time homebuyer. House prices are driven upward due to scarcity of the supply and high demand for houses. House sales are completed in an astoundingly fast paced that is head spinning for a novice house buyer. The sheer competitiveness of the market forces the buyer to…

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Steven Bui

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