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

Housing Wire

This includes financials, organizational documents, agent productivity reports, operating metrics, vendor contracts, lease agreements, employment agreements, insurance documents, and more. From a data lens, transactions can be broken out into three different stages: Valuation , Due Diligence , and Contract.

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What Do Appraisers Look For in a Sales Contract?

Appraisal Today

What Do Appraisers Look For in a Sales Contract? Why must an appraiser be given a copy of the sales contract? That’s the real reason why—because USPAP says so. What this document is, is a programming blueprint showing all the report fields on what will become the new dynamic form. Answers a lot of appraiser questions.

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Texas Real Estate Contracts and Addendums: A Guide for Home Sellers and Buyers

Listing Spark

Episode Summary In this episode, Aaron Jistel (Broker and Co-Founder at ListingSpark) focuses on how recent changes to Texas Real Estate Commission’s contracts and documents may affect home sellers and buyers. These changes will go into effect February 1st.

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Maintain that Workfile

Appraisal Buzz

Real property appraisers have had quite a bit dumped on them in the past couple of years. The uncertainty, turmoil, and government interest in oversight and intervention caused by allegations of racial and ethnic bias in real property appraisal is cause for concern.

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7 best real estate schools in Illinois (IL) for 2024

Housing Wire

Covers license law, real property, agency, state & federal laws, advertising, valuation, finance, real estate calculations, contracts & more + 15-hr Applied Real Estate Principles, an interactive course Leap Learning 60-hr Online Topics Package $419 60 of required 75 hrs. Self-paced.

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The Difference Between Pricing a Property and Appraising It

Cleveland Appraisal Blog

(Assuming they made adjustments) Did you consider any relevant market trends or economic factors when determining the property’s value? Can you provide any additional information or documentation to support your appraisal? Hopefully, the agent will be able to answer these questions. The first question above relates to approaches.

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Navigating the Appraisal Process – What You Need to Know

Simonson Real Estate

An appraisal is an objective, impartial, and unbiased opinion about the value of real property prepared by a State Licensed or Certified professional appraiser. When a property has longer-term leases in place, even at market rates and terms, the interest appraised is typically leased fee. Defining the Appraisal Scope of Work.