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

Housing Wire

This data becomes important at various stages of a transaction, and when it’s time to produce it, the process is radically easier if it is clean and organized. From a data lens, transactions can be broken out into three different stages: Valuation , Due Diligence , and Contract.

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Loan buybacks haven’t disappeared, but they are trending down

Housing Wire

A large portion of those loans, once repurchased from the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) at par, were later resold for much less in the so-called “scratch and dent market. Levonick said that in today’s market, the economics have shifted toward encouraging more quality control reviews at the originator level. “And

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Underwriter shortage slowing the pace of private-label deals

Housing Wire

They are in high demand for each stage of the mortgage process, yet they are in seriously short supply in a still-booming mortgage market. The private label market share of U.S. RMBS market. They can’t bring [securitization] deals to market as quickly. We certainly hear that as a concern in the market.”.

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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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Regulation hasn’t caught up to generative AI

Housing Wire

If you are using it in marketing, we need to make sure it does not infringe intellectual property,” Stucky said at an AI session at the 2023 Mortgage Bankers Association Annual Convention & Expo in Philadelphia on Monday. “With this rapidly evolving technology, there are a lot of risks.

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

Housing Wire

When the time comes to enter the mergers and acquisitions stage, either to cash in or to accelerate growth, so many of these same professionals cast caution to the wind and step into the market with little to no experience or understanding of the possibilities. Making a plan. Instead, it starts with the “why.”.

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The Mortgage Collaborative launches emerging technology fund

Housing Wire

To stay competitive in today’s market, technology adoption and integration is key. In his capacity as fund manager, he was responsible for deal origination, leading all due diligence activities and reporting to an Investment Committee based in Hong Kong. “I