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Zillow Adds Climate Risk Information on For-Sale Listings
The new climate risk information will be available on the Zillow app for iOS and on the Zillow website by the end of the year. Continue Reading Zillow Adds Climate Risk Information on For-Sale Listings
Tech Trends: Help for the Property Owners
This week’s edition for Tech Trends highlights four new tools designed to help current and prospective property owners. Continue Reading Tech Trends: Help for the Property Owners
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Tech Trends: Does Your CRM Do All That You Need It to Do?
Form Simplicity and zipForm are in the tech spotlight this week. Continue Reading Tech Trends: Does Your CRM Do All That You Need It to Do?
Guaranteed Rate Debuts RateReduce Sell Program
Chicago-headquartered Guaranteed Rate has enhanced its RateReduce offering to include RateReduce Sell, a program designed to help real estate agents facing a challenging home sales market. According to the company, RateReduce Sell provides real estate agents the...
Tech Trends: Is Your Scheduling Automated? If Not, You’re Wasting Time
It’s impossible to keep up with everything without this valuable technology in your arsenal. Continue Reading Tech Trends: Is Your Scheduling Automated? If Not, You’re Wasting Time
South Africa’s Flow gets funding to automate social media advertising for real estate agencies
Source: Tech Crunch --- The process used by millions of agents and thousands of property portals globally to reach buyers and sellers on digital channels is highly fragmented. And it’s evident that proptech, unlike other industries, has lagged in utilizing social...
What Do Agents Need To Have This Year
Debbie Bloyd is a contributing author to Weekly Real Estate News and can be contacted at 469-768-0337 or [email protected] What do agents need to have this year? A great mortgage lender that they can call or one that can sit in the open houses with them on...
Loan Level Price Adjustments (LLPAs) Explained
Loan Level Price Adjustments (LLPAs) are additional fees implemented by the Federal Housing Finance Administration (FHFA) on certain types of mortgage loans. These fees are designed to account for the increased risk associated with certain loan characteristics, such...
Real estate gurus: It may be time to buy a home—now
Source: Yahoo! News --- The housing market is cooling as consumers grow weary of higher mortgage rates. In December, the number of newly-listed homes sold had fallen about 37% from a year ago, according to Redfin data. What are real estate professionals seeing on the...
Real Estate Experts Share ROI Trends Of Wellness Design Home Features
Source: Forbes --- Public awareness of the links between our homes and our health was growing before the pandemic, but it has exploded in the months and years since then. What will the many built-in wellness design improvements we’ve added in recent years do to...
What is mortgage insurance?
Source: Insurance Business Mag --- Lenders typically require home buyers to provide a down payment equivalent to 20% of the property’s purchase price to qualify for a loan. This amount, however, which can easily hit upwards to the tens to the hundreds of thousands of...
3 Must Ask Questions When Interviewing a Real Estate Agent
Source: The Katy News --- When it comes to the real estate business, buying and selling homes is a big financial engagement for a lot of people. This is especially true in current times as the market is extremely competitive. This in itself is a really big matter....
HOW TO INVEST IN COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE
Source: Bezinga --- Commercial real estate (CRE) can be an excellent alternative investment opportunity that can possibly outperform stocks and bonds. It’s a great tangible asset that can provide effective diversification, generate stable and competitive income and...
With Rising Interest Rates, Do Adjustable Rate Mortgages Make Sense?
Source: Albany Herald --- As rates on traditional mortgages have risen, a growing number of home buyers are turning to adjustable rate loans in order to save a few dollars. But do buyers risk getting hit with significant increases when that lock expires? Don't let...
Pivot to find profits during a recession: Focus on homebuyers
Source: firsttuesday Journal --- Working in a buyer’s market The past decade of real estate sales has given preferential treatment to the seller. During this time, sellers — and real estate agents — have gotten used to experiencing housing as a get-rich-quick scheme....
