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Thinking of selling your real estate brokerage? Here’s how to prepare

Housing Wire

We’ve learned a few things along the way, and if you’re thinking about selling your real estate brokerage firm, whether next month or five years from now, one of our biggest pieces of advice can be captured in two words — clean data. Valuation – The valuation stage can also be considered the preliminary due diligence stage.

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Opinion: Why aren’t more commercial brokerages seeking affiliated arrangements?

Housing Wire

In fact, there aren’t many mortgage lenders, builders or real estate brokerages that haven’t at least fleetingly entertained the notion. So why aren’t more commercial real estate (CRE) entities – investors , principals, banks, law firms or developers – seeking the same? And why not? buyers and sellers) in a residential deal.

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Meet the likely buyers of independent mortgage banks in 2023

Housing Wire

But Brian Hale, who is assisting several buyers in their hunt for independent mortgage bank acquisition targets, sees an even more brutal landscape ahead. Still, consolidation is clearly underway in the mortgage banking industry already. The plug-and-play and brokerage routes. trillion in loans, about half of 2021’s $4.4

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GSE repurchase risk is rippling through the MSR market

Housing Wire

A fly in the ointment, however, particularly for some independent mortgage banks (IMBs), is the elevated risk of agency loan-repurchase demands — triggered by loans that violate Fannie Mae ’s or Freddie Mac ’s rep and warranty policies due to some defect discovered during the agencies’ post-origination quality-review processes. “So,

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ICE integrates Maxwell and Roostify to eClose solution

Housing Wire

Founded in 2015, Maxwell uses artificial intelligence to accelerate the mortgage process for over 300 community lenders, banks, and credit unions. Maxwell looks to digitize the entire mortgage transaction with fulfillment, payments, and due diligence solutions. Are digital closings really worth it? Presented by: Notarize.

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Single-family rental market slammed by headwinds

Housing Wire

The third deal in motion, also backed in part by investment properties, is now undergoing due-diligence review. It is an estimated 470-loan securitization — with no value yet assigned in the due-diligence documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. in June to 6.5%

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What is Self-Directed IRA Real Estate?

Norada Real Estate

If you were to go down to your bank or brokerage and tell them you need a self-directed IRA they would probably tell you that’s what you have. There are several truly self-directed IRA custodians that we work with that are not commission-based institutions like your bank or brokerage.