Your Family Can Fund Your FHA Down Payment — and the Seller Can Cover the Rest: Gift Funds and Seller Concessions, Explained

Your Family Can Fund Your FHA Down Payment — and the Seller Can Cover the Rest: Gift Funds and Seller Concessions, Explained

Douglas Wilkerson
Published on: 30/10/2026

FHA lets a family gift cover the entire 3.5% down payment, and the seller can contribute up to 6% of the price toward closing costs. Here is how the two buckets work — and the lines you cannot cross — on a $300,000 Jacksonville example.

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