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Opinion: why real estate agents should serve their community

Housing Wire

Real estate agents and business leaders play a pivotal role in improving the cities in which they operate, making community service an essential value to their professions. Demonstrate your values to customers Buyers and sellers want more than just transactional relationships with their agents.

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Do the Due: A Complete Due Diligence Guide and Checklist for Homebuyers

HomeLight

As a buyer, that means you have to do your due diligence from both a practical and contractual perspective. What does due diligence mean in residential real estate? Cesi Pagano , a real estate agent with over 30 years of experience in Orange County, California , says, “It’s important that buyers look at every detail.

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Fitch Group adding capital-markets fintech dv01 to its fold

Housing Wire

The loan-level data and analytics provided by dv01 assists clients across the investment-workflow spectrum, from market due diligence to securitizations to performance analysis. Its products include Loan Data Agent for Securitizations, Portfolio Surveillance, Market Surveillance and Credit Facility Management.

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North Carolina’s low home prices luring buyers

Housing Wire

” Such is the life of the agent and broker in the hot North Carolina metro, which has seen an enormous uptick in transplants since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic as work-from-home mandates are allowing people to live wherever they want. . ” The current average due diligence is around 3.1%

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Class Valuation’s CIO on solving the appraisal conundrum

Housing Wire

Another example is the LIDAR that’s now available on iPhones, which adds a whole other dynamic to developing point cloud technology to gather measurements and spatial information about anything that you’re scanning. Now, we’re giving a fully transparent data package to the appraiser that they have to use to develop their opinions.

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ICE integrates Maxwell and Roostify to eClose solution

Housing Wire

Parvesh Sahi, senior vice president of business and client development at ICE Mortgage Technology, said that lenders will have a true digital experience that provides efficiency, speed, and cost savings. “We Maxwell looks to digitize the entire mortgage transaction with fulfillment, payments, and due diligence solutions.

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Opinion: Does your title M&A strategy add up?

Housing Wire

It’s one thing to throw buzzwords like “due diligence” around when the time comes to build an M&A strategy, and yet, quite another to walk away with maximum ROI. Listen to the “chatter” of real estate agents or underwriters at local conferences. Due diligence. Making a plan. Get an introduction to the owner.

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