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CertifID expands insurance coverage on wire transfers

Housing Wire

With home sale prices continuing to rise, wire fraud prevention firm CertifID announced Thursday that it is increasing its direct, first-party insurance coverage maximum to $2 million. Customers are now able to purchase the coverage up to the increased maximum of $2 million.

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Guide – Purchase and Sale Agreements (PSAs)

C4D Crew

This article will guide you through one of the more important of those documents—the purchase and sale agreement. . By the end of this article, you’ll know exactly what’s in a PSA, why PSAs are an essential part of purchasing a home, and who’s responsible for drafting it. . Defining Purchase and Sale Agreements (PSAs).

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“Do the work:” Gary Keller tells agents there’s more than enough homes to sell in their markets

Housing Wire

There are more than enough homes sales in your market for every one of you to hit your goals if you do the right things. In this scenario, Keller Williams sees unemployment remaining under 5% and interest rates falling in a bumpy manner to around 6%, resulting in existing home sales , which are currently slower than 2023, jumping to 4.5

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Buyers bound to agreement negotiated by family friend

REM Online

The original post can be found at the following URL: Buyers bound to agreement negotiated by family friend. The original post can be found at the following URL: Buyers bound to agreement negotiated by family friend. The following content may have been republished here without the author's permission. Yang, 2021 ONSC 6786 (CanLII).

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Recruiting Insight Expands Its Capabilities To Canada With Agreement To Service Cape Breton Realty

Realty Biz

Recruiting Insight and Cape Breton Realty announced an agreement to leverage the Recruiting Insight capabilities to grow agent count and market share. In addition, the firm has collected items donated by clients, agents, and friends, as well as the public, for a large yard sale. The firm gives back to the communities it serves.

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Tips for growing your title business in a down market

Housing Wire

There are a number of ways by which they can do this, including affiliated arrangements, work share agreements or even less formal forms of partnership. However, a title agency that lacks a commercial real estate capability, or which relied primarily on refinance volume in years past, has the option of growing.

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Fed retreat from MBS market sparks short-term uncertainty

Housing Wire

What happens when the Federal Reserve begins pulling back in a serious way from the mortgage-backed securities (MBS) market that it has helped to prop up through billions of dollars in bond purchases since the start of the pandemic in 2020 — to the point where it now holds a $2.7 trillion agency MBS portfolio? The Feds existing $2.7

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