down payment
Example Sentences
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My partner’s parents offered to help with the down payment, but they reacted strongly to the property.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 3, 2026
Paying interest on a second loan instead of making a cash down payment can increase the overall cost of homeownership significantly.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
The new offering from Better Home & Finance and Coinbase allows home buyers to pledge bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies when making a down payment.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
Real estate, as you said, is probably off the table, seeing as the median down payment on a home clocks in at $62,000, according to Bankrate.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 16, 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
