Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Another reason why distressed sales are likely low, is that lending standards remain tight. Want to learn more about what to expect when it comes to the future of the housing market? Join us in Scottsdale, Arizona Oct. Join us in Scottsdale, Arizona Oct. It is difficult to obtain a mortgage today.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2024

There will always be people who don’t see the value in a real estate agent because there are so many people with a license who don’t know anything about real estate. Based on NAR’s stats, there are quite a few people who value us as long as we provide value to them. Agents/Brokerages have fees and/or commission structures.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Most brokerage leaders know about the multiple challenges facing the real estate industry, not the least of which are the major class-action lawsuits. It seems a small share of the agent population even knows about this issue, and even fewer can loosely tell you what the potential outcomes are. outcomes of these cases.

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Real Trends

MARCH 3, 2022

No matter how much prep, effort and marketing you’ve put into your listing, it’s likely to sell quickly and for over-list price in this seller’s market, which is nothing to brag about. . This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of RealTrends’ editorial department and its owners. Be available.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 9, 2024

In so doing, Ford obliterated a long-established industry business model plagued by inefficiency, slow production and lack of standardization. Ours is a space crying out for more standardization. All of this in spite of what has to be considered a digital transformation that has enveloped us in the past five years.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 3, 2023

While I’m a fan of improving antiquated systems, I first wonder if the VA, the MBA, or Congress were open enough about the problems with the current system. VA’s MPRs allow for the veteran to not worry about having to immediately sink their funds into repairs and instead have savings in the bank to avoid defaulting on the loan.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

It’s not something consumers think about much when they set out to buy a first home or plan to “upsize” to accommodate life changes. Instead, they think about finding a home in a great neighborhood or perhaps in a good school district. They dream about having an extra bedroom or glam bath—maybe a finished basement or proximity to work.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 17, 2022

Today, I want to talk about an inevitability that finally happened. But the latter is also upon us, and it came exactly where many of us thought it would. Eventually, the standard that we all knew and understood was implemented: a minimum 5% down payment. ” How about 30%? How about 35?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

It’s not something consumers think about much when they set out to buy a first home or plan to upsize to accommodate life changes. Unfortunately, those ads don’t talk much about the next month or six weeks, the period real estate professionals call the “settlement process.” Anton Tonev is the cofounder of InspectHOA.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2022

The mortgage markets of 2007 and 2020 remind us that there is no durable mortgage market without federal backing (including the banking system). The subprime mortgage crisis offers a great example of why national guarantor standards are critical. Beyond storytelling, what does economic theory say about strict privatization?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

If that crisis taught us anything, it is that underwriting standards and risk-protection should be strong and well-tested. This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of HousingWire’s editorial department and its owners. We didn’t like the ending. Let’s make sure it doesn’t happen again.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 24, 2020

For all the talk in the media about evil landlords, unfair evictions, and the dangers of allowing leniency to property owners to do bad things to renters, there’s very seldom talk of what really goes on out there and just how impossible it is to get problem tenants out of units. None of the conversation is about this.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

While many Americans are encouraged by the recent executive order redressing our nation’s — and the federal government’s — historical discriminatory housing policies , it’s time we reflect on the racially biased policies for homeownership that brought us here in the first place. In 1934, Congress and President Franklin D.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 6, 2023

A sample of our findings As mentioned above, our research into the results of our own clients (as well as a number of peers and partners to us and those clients) brought some very clear results. That’s a savings of about 43% as compared to using only human resources to complete the same functions.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 29, 2021

Since that date, I have heard all kinds of talk about a market crash, and the talk has been very strong at certain points. The market in the United States crashed, so it seems to reason that we’d talk about it here in Canada. Everywhere I look, I’m reading about the crash. How about a few leftist opinion pieces?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Continued digitization of the appraisal process takes us a step closer to understanding the key drivers of these gaps and to ensure there is consistency of approach in every neighborhood, every time. Data and compliance standards need to improve to more effectively identify valuation bias. We need more science and less art.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Despite significant, thoughtful feedback to Ginnie Mae about the impacts of some of their proposals, it seems that Ginnie Mae simply turned a blind eye to these concerns. As a former FHA Commissioner under President Obama, I was there when the first discussions of using the False Claims Act to penalize lenders was initiated.

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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

I could talk for days about this, especially as a client of mine just went through this with a developer who promised him and his neighbours riches, only to lowball them with a below-market offer, and a two-year conditional period. I took a LOT of flak for writing about the NIMBY’s in Leaside on multiple occasions this year.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

While some FHA watchers compare this reserve to bank standards and may try to claim that this is too low in comparison, keep in mind that this reserve is based on an analysis looking at the entire books NPV over the life of the loan. That is a far more aggressive standard than most private market capital cushions respectively.

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Notorious ROB

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Just about everybody either (a) panicked in fear, or (b) chortled with glee as such monster losses were unheard of in real estate. I often talk about the importance of singular focus, and it is now my time to follow my own advice. As we end 2022, I think he deserves a reappearance for a few reasons.

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