down payment
Example Sentences
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He has long maintained that his company, which started in 2011 and offered mortgages for as little as a 1% down payment, has not preyed on its customers.
From Salon • Apr. 12, 2026
Note: Assumes a 20% down payment and a 33% debt-to-income ratio.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026
Their daughter in her mid-40s asks for $200,000 toward a down payment on a $900,000 home.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 27, 2026
Once the crypto assets have been pledged for the down payment, the homeowner can’t trade them.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
A few months later, we used the advance for my second novel and placed a down payment on a pretty, two-bedroom Victorian house in San Francisco’s Bernal Heights.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
