Buy before you sell. Move once, stress less, unlock your equity.
Catapult empowers Bay Area homeowners to purchase their next home before selling the current one — no double mortgage, no bridge loans, no moving twice.
As a homeowner, buying a new home before selling yours can be so difficult. We’re here to help.
Your equity is locked in your current home
You can’t qualify for a second mortgage due to debt-to-income limits
Sellers don’t accept contingent offers in the Bay Area
You don’t want to move twice or live in temporary housing
Move on your timeline
Shop for a new home on your timeline. Move out of your current home, directly into your new one. No temporary housing required.
Choose your own team
We can help connect you with real estate agents and lenders we know well. Or you can use your own. The choice is yours.
No up-front costs
We only make money when your home sells on the open market. Catapult's fees are often a fraction of other options, and can be as low as zero percent for select clients. You never pay us up-front or out of pocket.
Shop with confidence
You take our offer to buy your home to the bank to secure financing, and most of our clients make non-contingent offers. You can shop for your dream home with confidence.
The Catapult way: buy first, sell later – without the stress.
There are no upfront costs. We are not iBuyers or home flippers. Our product helps you buy your new home first, move just once, and then sell your current home on the open market.
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Catapult starts with a First Payment, which enables you to secure financing with ease. It's 70-75% of the value of your home - the rest comes later - and pays off your current mortgage and helps with the down payment.
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Next you go shopping! With our offer, you can get fully underwritten (not just pre-approved!) by lenders — that means you can make strong, non-contingent offers. And our clients win!
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When you find a new home, everything happens concurrently in escrow: our First Payment is sent to you and you buy your new home. You move just once.
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Then you pick any agent and get your home prepped to shine on the open market. When you home sells, you get a Second Payment from us equaling the net sale price minus our First Payment and fee. Most clients pay nothing upfront. Fees are collected only after your home sells.
Why Catapult is your best solution
There are no upfront costs. We are not iBuyers or home flippers. Our product helps you buy your new home first, move just once, and then sell your current home on the open market.
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Buy First, Move Once
Simple, fast process
Zero up-front costs
Pick Any Mortgage Lender
Pick Any Listing Agent
No Monthly Interest
Low or Zero Fees in Total
Personalized Strategy
You probably have a few questions.
We’ve rounded up the most common ones here to help you understand how Catapult works. If you’re an agent and have specific questions, head over to our agents page.
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No upfront fees or deposits. Zero. We only make money when your home is sold on the open market. Catapult's fees are often a fraction of other options that help you buy first and sell second. And for select clients, Catapult is free!
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We believe that as a homeowner, you get the best outcomes when you have a wide range of top agents to choose from. That's why we give our clients full discretion to work with any agent they like.
We do partner with highly regarded real estate agents and can connect you to any of them. Agents do not pay to be in our network. You can also choose an agent on your own, and we'll happily work with them on the sale.
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We currently help homeowners in Northern California and the San Francisco Bay Area sell their homes.
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Homeowners looking to move usually have two bad choices: (1) move out first, stage and sell the home, then shop for a new one; or, (2) take on an expensive loan or a second mortgage - if they can even get one - and buy the second home first.
We built Catapult to help free up homeowners to buy a new home without the stress. One move, no double mortgage.
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The more your home sells for on the open market, the more you make from the sale. Catapult charges a small fee based on the final sale price for the home.
You will get whatever the home sells for on the open market, minus our fee and the typical closing costs (agent fees, escrow fees, etc.).
So if your home sells for more than we think it’s worth, we both make more money off the sale; if it sells for less, we both make less money than expected. Either way, we are aligned with you in wanting to get the best price for your home on the open market.
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Schedule a call or drop us an email or call us at (408) 868-8156. We'll get back to you within one business day.
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Yes! The easiest way to learn more is to schedule a call or drop us an email or call us at (408) 868-8156. We'll get back to you within one business day.
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We work with a real estate agent of your choosing who will list your home. We can recommend real estate agents to you if you don’t have one already.
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Yes, so that we can sell it after you have moved into your new home. You shop for a new home and make offers. Once you find a new home to buy, we buy your current one from you at the same time you buy your new one. Then we work with you and your agent to help sell it on the open market after you have moved into your new home. Once it sells, we send you a second payment.
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This service will be most valuable for homeowners with mortgage balances under 75% of the home’s value. We buy a wide range of homes, condos, townhomes, and multi-family homes.
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It's fast and simple. Seriously. We don’t need stacks of paperwork from you. We don’t need your credit score or paystubs. After our first call, we ask for some simple information about your home and from there it will take days not weeks to finalize things.
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We are not an iBuyer. With iBuyers, the less they pay you for your home, the more profit they stand to make. With Catapult, the more your home sells for, the more both you and we make. We are aligned with our customers to get the highest price for their home.
Ready to buy before you sell?
Chat with a Catapult expert to see if you qualify. It’s fast, free, and there’s no obligation.
or call us at (408) 868-8156