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Roofstock buys Great Jones platform to help investors profit on their real estate

Housing Wire

Roofstock , a proptech startup aimed at making it easier to purchase an income-producing property, announced Wednesday its acquisition of Great Jones , a property management platform that Roofstock intends to utilize for its “end-to-end single-family rental platform.”

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This app lets homeowners generate floor plans of their homes for free

Housing Wire

we’re helping potential buyers make more informed decisions, while empowering agents and sellers to market their properties more effectively, and supporting a modern valuation process for both appraisers and lenders,” said Jeff Allen, president of CubiCasa. How smart home technology can benefit renters and property managers.

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Fannie Mae clarifies ARM interest rate, ups cash-out refi term on manufactured homes

Housing Wire

Additionally, we added new language to the retail, third-party origination, broker and correspondent definitions to clarify that an affiliate, subsidiary, or parent company relationship with the mortgage seller are considered the same as the seller for the purposes of the definition of the origination type.”

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Illinois homebuyer files commission lawsuit against @properties

Housing Wire

However, the suit is seeking both national and Illinois class action status for all persons who purchased a home listed on a NAR MLS with a buyer’s agent and or seller-agent employed or affiliated with @properties or any of its franchises, subsidiaries, or agencies between March 17, 2000, and the present.

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Opinion: Real estate brokers are still buying and selling firms

Housing Wire

Rather than a multi-year average of EBITDA or Gross Margin as the basis for the value of a brokerage firm (or their related counterparts in mortgage, title, escrow, and property management), valuations now are based Trailing Twelve Months (TTM or LTM) results.

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Opinion: More can be done to shorten the average time to close

Housing Wire

There’s no uniform method of determining if a property management firm represents an HOA and, if so, which firm. There’s no easy-to-access resource advising how to communicate with every HOA or property management firm. Of course, HOAs and property managers are busy and have other priorities as well.

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Are you prepping for worst-case commission lawsuit outcomes?

Housing Wire

The lawsuit, which was originally filed in 2019 and won class-action status in April, alleges that some NAR rules, including one that requires listing brokers to offer buyer brokers a commission to list a property in a Realtor-affiliated MLS, violate the Sherman Antitrust Act by inflating seller costs. in California.