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Divvy launches new product aimed at homeownership readiness

Housing Wire

They wanted to understand their credit, they wanted to understand their debt-to-income ratio, they wanted to understand how to build their savings, and they wanted education.” According to Hefets, real estate agents can register with Divvy. With these customer needs in mind, Hefets and her team set out to create DivvyUp.

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Lenders: Looking to simplify closings? Work with an insurance agency

Housing Wire

An affordable home insurance policy not only means lower monthly payments, but also improved debt-to-income ratio and more money to put towards home improvements, property taxes or closing costs. An independent agent can shop for you to maximize savings, as well as bundle ancillary policies like auto or flood.

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Flyhomes acquires Home Sale Assured

Housing Wire

Consumers, agents and lenders are all looking for practical solutions to overcome these institutional challenges and Flyhomes has been at the forefront of this category. During this 90-day period, the client can work with a real estate agent to list their prior home.

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Louisiana’s housing market has an insurance problem

Housing Wire

While the slowdown has resulted in a return to pre-pandemic levels of market activity, real estate agents across the state believe that an issue far greater than 7% mortgage rates may cause the housing market to slow further. “We We have an insurance problem,” said Charlotte Johnson , a Keller Williams agent based in Mandeville.

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Buyer agency: a crucial historical shift in real estate

Housing Wire

Those too young to remember the wild west of real estate believe that real estate commissions have always been evenly split between seller’s and buyer’s agents, with each receiving a portion of the sale price. This misconception obscures the reality that, historically, buyers lacked formal representation.

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Agents fight misconceptions to win deals for military veteran clients

Housing Wire

After completing countless Veterans Administration (VA) mortgage loan transactions over the years, Chris Pascoe, a Marine veteran turned RE/MAX agent, has developed something of a system. First, he has his clients lender call the listing agent. Somebody has a problem once and then that story just spread.

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Agents, buyer’s financing denied? Here’s what to do.

Real Trends

Agents, stop letting your deals die. Other down payment issues can arise because they’re guaranteeing an appraisal gap, so an agent could try to have the seller re-negotiate. Ratio issues What does this even mean? Lenders require specific debt-to-income ratios in order to qualify a borrower for a mortgage loan.