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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?

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In fact, there aren’t many mortgage lenders, builders or real estate brokerages that haven’t at least fleetingly entertained the notion. Market conditions have certainly trended downward for residential or commercial real estate. And why not? In times of depressed revenue, it makes sense to seek any and all reasonable paths to revenue.

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GSE repurchase risk is rippling through the MSR market

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The mortgage servicing rights (MSR) market has been very active this year, with robust deal flow that is on par with last year’s record $1 trillion in trading volume and with generally good pricing for MSR packages, industry experts agree. Is it affecting the MSR market? “I

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Top Chicago team joins Compass

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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. Team Pimentel was ranked as the No.

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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. These can greatly improve a broker’s market position as well.

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Single-family rental market slammed by headwinds

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For the non-QM lenders serving the single-family investment-property space who have managed interest-rates well to stay ahead of the market, however, there’s still plenty of opportunity to pick up market share, industry observers argue. . by the end of 2023,” the MBA’s December market-forecast report states.

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Announcing the 2024 Class of Rising Stars!

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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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