Buying and selling a home at the same time can be a complicated process, to say the least. It's best described as a delicate juggling act, where the best possible outcome is highly contingent on timing. In an ideal world, you could sell your home, release your built-up equity, and find a new home all within a period of a few weeks. Unfortunately, these steps rarely fall in the right order.
That doesn't mean that all hope is lost or that buying and selling a home simultaneously is impossible to pull off. However, it's stillĀ a good idea to be aware of some of the less ideal scenarios that can arise from the process.
Issues With Funding
If you don't have a significant amount of cash saved up, the purchase of a new home might depend on your ability to use the equity tied up in your existing property as a down paym...