Buy your next home before you sell with Move First

Avoid making contingent offers, unlock your equity interest-free, and sell your current home on your timeline.

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Why choose Move First over a traditional sale?

Buying while selling a home often means contingent offers, tight timelines, inconvenient showings, and the risk of managing two mortgages. With Move First, your dedicated Orchard agent helps you buy your next home first. After you move in, your agent leads the entire process of preparing, listing, and selling your current home for top dollar.

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How Move First works

Unlock your equity

Access your home’s equity to cover your new down payment, closing costs, and moving expense – all before selling your current home.

Buy your next home first

Tour homes with your Orchard agent and make a non-contingent offer. Sellers prefer non-contigent offers.

List your old home and skip the showings

While you settle into your new home, your Orchard agent handles prep, photos, 3D tours, marketing and showings. Concierge also manages any needed repairs for you.

Finalize your sale and get paid

Once your home sells, you repay your advance and keep the remaining proceeds.

Is Move First right for you?

Move First is built for homeowners who want a more flexible and less stressful way to buy and sell, with expert support at every step.

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You’ll love Move First if you:

Are trying to buy a new home while selling your current one.
Prefer to avoid showings, double moves, and tight timelines.
Want to use your home’s equity to fund your next purchase.
Value expert guidance from a dedicated Orchard agent at every step.

What Move First customers say

Hear from homeowners who’ve sold their home with Move First.

Amazing agents, stress-free process, astonishing knowledge of the market.

We actually sold for more than expected.

Our Agent made the sale so easy...the house sold in just two and a half days.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Move First lets you buy your new home before you sell your current one by using a portion of your equity upfront.

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Move First allows you to buy before you sell, avoid contingent offers, and let your Orchard agent handle everything from home prep to sale while you settle into your new home.

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To be eligible for the Move First program, the home you are selling must be a single-family home in one of our current markets.

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