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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? That’s why we’ve put together this guide to due diligence for a homebuyer. Free Homebuying Due Diligence Checklist.

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

Housing Wire

From a data lens, transactions can be broken out into three different stages: Valuation , Due Diligence , and Contract. Valuation – The valuation stage can also be considered the preliminary due diligence stage. Once an offer is accepted, the full due diligence stage commences.

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Private-label loan-vetting comes up short

Housing Wire

As part of that, it’s important to understand that the due-diligence reviews performed on loan pools assembled for securitizations often make use of a process called loan sampling. The concept is simple: A random sample of loans is selected for due-diligence review from a larger pool of loans that often numbers in the thousands.

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CHLA voices support for attorney opinion letters to FHFA

Housing Wire

The Community Home Lenders of America (CHLA) submitted a letter to the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) expressing its support for the use of attorney opinion letters (AOLs) on Wednesday. We are not asking [to] supplant title insurance, we are asking to try to create this as an option.”

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Cenlar FSB names Thomas Donatacci as investor relations officer

Housing Wire

Donatacci has extensive experience in servicing transactions and subservicing, due diligence, and M&A. executive vice president of special servicing at Selene Finance , and executive vice president of Clayton Holdings, LLC. chief of staff at Impac Holdings Inc.

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New MISMO standards are critical to a growing PLS market

Housing Wire

Fortunately, MISMO , the real estate finance industry’s standards organization , is here to help market participants navigate any uptick in PLS activity from a data perspective. Without such standards, there will be a substantial bottleneck as each transaction will require 100 percent due diligence and manual processes. .

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Regulation hasn’t caught up to generative AI

Housing Wire

Vendors might not be as experienced with utilizing AI, so asking due diligence questions for for data security is also key, Joseph Zeibert, vice president of FICO , pointed out. “Lenders will have to work with legal, risk, compliance and IT to define AI governance before implementing AI technologies,” Buschman said.