{"id":336,"date":"2024-04-18T22:36:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T22:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/2024\/04\/buying-a-home-using-retirement-savings-financial-expert-weighs-in\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T15:05:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T15:05:49","slug":"buying-a-home-using-retirement-savings-financial-expert-weighs-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/2024\/04\/buying-a-home-using-retirement-savings-financial-expert-weighs-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Buying a home using retirement savings? Financial expert weighs in&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/401k-to-buy-a-house.png\" style=\"clear: right;float: right;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-left: 1em\"><span style=\"font-family: arial\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"480\" data-original-width=\"800\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/401k-to-buy-a-house.png\" width=\"400\" \/><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\">Nearly 1 in 10 American homeowners say they pulled money from their retirement savings to cover the down payment and closing costs associated with buying their house.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\">A recent survey by Bankrate found that 9% of homeowners withdrew from their 401(k) or other retirement account to make the purchase, and younger generations were most likely to do so.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\">But is it a smart financial move?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/personal-finance\/buying-home-using-retirement-savings-financial-expert-weighs\" target=\"_blank\">READ MORE<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Nearly 1 in 10 American homeowners say they pulled money from their retirement savings to cover the down payment and closing costs associated with buying their house. A recent survey by Bankrate found that 9% of homeowners withdrew from their 401(k) or other retirement account to make the purchase, and younger generations were most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-estate","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions\/338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}