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7 Takeaways: Due Diligence Fee and Earnest Money in Real Estate

Raleigh Realty

Understanding Due Diligence and Earnest Money in North Carolina Real Estate When you go under contract on a home in North Carolina you are going to encounter terms like Due Diligence and Earnest Money. It's important to note that real estate contracts and laws change depending on what state you are in. Due Diligence: What Is it?

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HINTS OF SHARP INCREASE IN NEW CONSTRUCTION

Will Springer Realtor

Builders began construction on just under a million single-family homes in 2020. Most notably, it’s the first time mortgages declined from Q1 to Q2 since 2011, according to ATTOM Data Solutions. The dollar and sales volumes were the lowest for the international segment since 2011. >> A full 34% of all mortgaged U.S. balcony.

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How to grow housing supply in 2021

Housing Wire

months, builders will halt the rate of growth for new construction plans as they did in 2018 and again for a brief period this year. months, the builders are ok with construction as long as new home sales grow. This period was also during a lull in our prime-age labor force growth, so demand was soft during the years 2006-2011.

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Freddie Advice: How to Avoid Using “Bad” Words

Appraisal Today

Originally constructed in 1973, an 1100 ht.sq.ft. addition in 2011 expanded its footprint and modernized its features also adding a 4-car garage. Additions may be constructed, outbuildings added, and zoning regulations updated. The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages backed by the FHA decreased to 7.36

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Appraisals – Check the Water Source!

Appraisal Today

NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on real estate market, USPAP and contracts, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc. ==. The way that we did that was through cantilevers and using structural engineers and steel to help us to construct the home that we absolutely wanted.”.

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Will Springer Realtor - Untitled Article

Will Springer Realtor

This year’s “cold down” is stark, with 36% fewer new listings and about 26% fewer homes under contract (Pendings) for all King County home types combined as well as single-family structures alone – and that’s simply from October to November. A little more than a third of inventory is under contract. drop ($677,475).

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Existing home sales are working from a historic low bar

Housing Wire

Our housing market tracker counts weekly active single-family listings, those homes that aren’t in the contract, and the raw available number of homes for sale. This is why the Altos Research numbers we cite are always smaller than the NAR numbers, which accounts for all home types and those in contract.