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HOW AND WHY YOU WANT FHA CONDO APPROVAL
Source: Realty Biz News --- A condo might be perfect if you don't want to buy a single-family home. Though, if you want to use an FHA loan, you might find it more difficult as condos need to be approved. There are many things to know about buying a condo, and this is...
Thriving after being ‘thrown to the wolves’
Source: MPA Mag --- You think the economy is bad now for the mortgage industry? Try coming up like Michael Borodinsky (pictured) did back in the 80s. “I graduated from the University of Delaware in 1983,” he told Mortgage Professional America during a telephone...
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Savvy Chicks in Real Estate’s CEO On Doing Business Abroad
Source: Yahoo! --- Meet Makeda Smith, the Founder and CEO of Savvy Chicks in Real Estate®, a global network that helps women in real estate build and expand their businesses, online and offline. Born and raised in Chicago, as a child, she never dreamed of venturing...
THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF LISTING AGREEMENTS IN REAL ESTATE
Source: RisMedia --- When you want to sell your home and hire a real estate agent or broker, you will sign a listing agreement with them. The most common type of listing contract is an exclusive right to sell. But there isn’t only one type of listing contract that the...
How to Make an Offer on a House
Source: Point2Homes --- After a long search, you’ve finally found the home of your dreams. But, before you can relax, you need to make an offer that the seller won’t be able to resist. Making an attractive offer is crucial, especially in a hot market. There’s a good...
Real estate calls hotel bill an “F-U to the rest of the world”
Source: The Real Deal --- A “death knell” to hotels in Midtown. A “big f-u to the rest of the world.” These were just some of the comments by real estate professionals Wednesday about a measure to require special permits for new hotels citywide.
Tips & Insights from Opendoor Real Estate Expert
Source: ABC Action News --- In the hottest real estate market in a generation, the national inventory of active listings declined by more than 50 percent over last year, creating both challenges and opportunities for buyers and sellers. With homes flying off the...
Eight Critical Risk Items Within A Commercial Real Estate Lease
Source: Forbes --- Poor management of your real estate leases exposes your business to a range of risks including unexpected terminations, defaults and overbilling by lessors. And with new lease accounting rules requiring leases to be reported as assets and...
Briqwise expands Peer-to-Peer property lending platform to Australia
Source: IBS Intelligence --- Briqwise, the peer-to-peer platform for real estate financing, announced it is entering the Australian market. The new platform aims to lower barriers for small to medium business owners seeking a quick and reliable way to finance their...
Ten steps than can improve housing affordability
Source: Pasadena Star News --- I was excited to read about your recent Executive Order on promoting competition across America with the goal of reducing consumer prices. When it comes to real estate, reducing purchase and refinance transactional costs along with...
The U.S. Housing Market Is Losing Some of Its ‘Frenzy,’ As More Homes List for Sale
Source: The Wall Street Journal --- When Patrick Coleman bought a home in 2017, he beat out eight other bidders and paid $100,000 over the asking price. So this time around, after months of watching the frenzied pace of real-estate sales, he was prepared for even more...
As U.S. Home Prices Surge, American Buyers Set Their Sights on Europe
Source: The Wall Street Journal --- Kathryn Gamble, a Chicago veterinarian, and her husband, Texas orchestra conductor Robert Carter Austin, have been frequent visitors to Venice for more than two decades, staying in hotels or short-term rentals. They were ready to...
Inside Adele’s $30 million Beverly Hills real estate portfolio
Source: New York Post --- Hello from the other side! London-born singer Adele now holds a Beverly Hills real estate portfolio worth over $30 million after she recently bought a third home in the neighborhood from pal Nicole Richie. In May, the singer paid $10 million...
Facebook Is Getting Into the Real Estate Business
Source: Architectural Digest --- Facebook is planting its roots in the real world, with a planned community near its Menlo Park, California, headquarters—complete with a supermarket, restaurants, shops, and a 193-room hotel. Willow Village will truly be a company...
St. Louis real estate expert warns buyers: ‘Get your boxing gloves back on’
Source: KSDK --- “Get your boxing gloves back on.” That’s the encouragement – and warning – from Kathy Helbig-Strick, owner of Experience Realty Partners in St. Louis. After more than a year of unpredictability in real estate, largely due to the pandemic,...
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