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Opinion: Improving housing affordability without exposing homebuyers to more risk

Housing Wire

Additionally, recent research by First American found that title and settlement fees account for less than 1% of a borrower’s total life-of-loan costs , indicating that title insurance fees are one of the smallest portions of the equation. Diane Tomb is CEO of the American Land Title Association.

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Will we start 2022 with all-time lows in housing inventory?

Housing Wire

This type of sales growth — which couldn’t happen from 2008-2019, as I have often stated — is coming with a hefty price tag. Once they realized their dream of housing was not collapsing, they moved the goal post to 2021. Part of the major problem with housing is that American households who own homes are in great financial shape.

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Giving to Make a Difference This Holiday Season

RIS Media

While there are many reasons why we give, a wide-ranging survey by Fidelity Charitable reports that Americans have stepped up their monetary donations this year in large part as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Each tag has the wish list of a specific child. Charitable giving in the first half of 2020 increased by almost 7.5

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Are you making this real estate social media mistake?

Real Trends

This will take some planning, but prepare a weekly post of local happenings that are happening that week and tag the businesses and people involved. Share beautiful photos of home, give them home decor tips so they can see themselves living out the American Dream of homeownership. Share a weekly round up of local events.

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New Jersey’s Gloria Crest Estate, Once Home to Hollywood Silent Film Starlet, Is on the Market

Fancy Pants Homes

The Gloria Crest Estate in Englewood, New Jersey was originally brought to market in 2013 with a hyper expensive price tag of $39 million. And this sprawling estate that used to belong to Sunset Boulevard actress Gloria Swanson is a fit display of the elegance and sophistication of those times. Image credit: Signature Realty New Jersey.

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The Iconic Beverly House: where Jackie O & JFK Honeymooned, ‘The Bodyguard’ was Filmed, and where Beyonce Shot ‘Black is King’

Fancy Pants Homes

There’s no word of it having found a new owner yet, even though the price tag was lowered from its ambitious initial ask of $195 million. In 1946, it found a new owner in actress Marion Davies, who bought it for her lover , American media mogul William Randolph Hearst. The Gigantic Manor that Aaron Spelling Built Jackie O.

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Is Your ‘Clutter’ Worth Thousands of Dollars? 9 Items You Should Sell Rather Than Toss Out

Realtor.com

Hopefully you didn’t remove the tags; but even if you did, you can still cash in. If you saved any T-shirts from your teenage rock star dreams, they could be worth more than the price of a front-row concert ticket today. Who doesn’t love Beanie Babies?

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