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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. CRE assets are subject to a myriad of regulatory requirements, zoning laws, and environmental considerations that don’t apply to home sales, requiring thorough due diligence and compliance measures.

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Top Chicago team joins Compass

Housing Wire

She continued: “We did our due diligence and reviewed other brokerages. “We’ve wanted to bring our company to the next level for a while now, and by joining Compass, we know we can do that through increasing brand awareness and our average sales price,” Pimentel said in a statement.

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Opinion: Beware of the hidden losses of real estate mergers and acquisitions

Housing Wire

As someone who worked for a large, nationally branded brokerage for 30+ years, I had a front-row seat to many mergers and acquisitions. Owning a brokerage isn’t what it used to be More and more aging broker-owners are considering retiring or moving on from real estate. I would love to say they all went well, but they didn’t.

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GSE repurchase risk is rippling through the MSR market

Housing Wire

Piercy said savvy MSR buyers have instituted “counterparty diligence forever,” adding that regardless of the repurchase environment, that counterparty review [due diligence] “is critical.” If there is a risk, then they will expand that due diligence to see what else is there, and that’s how buyers protect themselves.

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Tech-enabled, hybrid brokerage Prevu opens in Florida

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The digital homebuying solution that heavily leverages detailed online search and buyer due diligence before engaging its salaried agents now operates in Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Boca Raton and West Palm Beach.

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Announcing the 2024 Class of Rising Stars!

Housing Wire

Almeida Realtor- Team Leader The American Dream Group Coldwell Banker Abhishek Shende Senior Principal Software Engineer Zillow Group Adi Pavlovic CEO Newzip Alnur Kassim-Lakha Director Mile Rock Capital Amy Macken Senior Vice President, Due Diligence Operations Consolidated Analytics Anaid Chacón Senior Vice President of Product Argyle Mortgage Arkadiusz (..)

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