Ready to buy · California
When you're actually ready, you need one good agent.
Not browsing — ready. Pre-approved, or close to it, and you want someone who has bought through a downturn as well as a boom. We introduce you to one agent who closes in the area you're buying in. One name, not five, and no cost to you.
Still working out whether you're ready? Start at HomeIQ Academy: readiness, credit and affordability, properly. Come back when you want the introduction.
Get prequalified with Altitude Home Loans Optional, and never a condition of anything we do. Altitude Home Loans is an unaffiliated lender; bring any lender you like and nothing changes.
Get matched with a buyer's agent
One agent with a real closing record where you're buying. No cost to you, and no obligation to go ahead.
Request received
We'll review it and introduce you to one buyer's agent within one business day.
Why it matters
A full market cycle of experience changes what an agent does for you.
An offer that actually wins
Winning isn't always the highest number. It's the terms, the timeline, and knowing which seller wants speed over price. An agent who has lost bidding wars knows which ones were worth losing.
An inspection read properly
Every report has alarming language in it. An agent who has seen enough of them tells you which findings are ordinary for a house that age and which one should stop you walking any further.
An appraisal gap you saw coming
When the appraisal lands short you have days to decide. Someone who has been through it in a falling market knows what a seller will actually accept, and when to walk away. That's where you want someone who has done this several hundred times.
Where we'd start
Walk the new builds first.
Builders have levers a private seller doesn't. When a phase is slow they would rather hand you closing costs, an upgrade package or a financing incentive than cut the list price and reprice everything behind them. It's worth walking a few before deciding the market has nothing in it for you.
Please talk to us before you visit a sales office. Nearly every builder asks who your agent is the first time you walk in, and most will only recognise the agent who was named on that first visit. Go in on your own and the introduction is spent: your agent can't be brought in on that community afterwards, and it isn't something any of us can appeal once it's done. Model homes, sales offices and open houses at new communities all count. Telling us first costs you nothing and takes one message.
What you get
One introduction, made on purpose.
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A closing record where you're buyingWe look at where they've actually closed in the last year, not where their brokerage happens to have an office.
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Told before you sign what it will really costClosing costs, lender fees, inspections, and the two or three line items that surprise people at signing.
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Set up for the sell side too, if you need oneSelling and buying at once is a timing problem before it's a real estate problem. Say so and we'll match accordingly.
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Paperwork walked through before you sign itDisclosures, reports and timelines explained in plain language, before the clock on them starts running.
Commission is between you and your agent. We don't set it, cap it, or take a cut of your proceeds.
Financing
Get prequalified before you tour. An agent can only write an offer you can show you're good for, and a builder's sales office asks on the first visit. Our founder also originates home loans through Altitude Home Loans, an unaffiliated lender. Entirely optional: bring any lender you like and nothing changes.