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Pending home sales shock 2021 housing crash bears

Housing Wire

From the National Association of Realtors : “The Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI), a forward-looking indicator of home sales based on contract signings, rose 7.5% An index of 100 is equal to the level of contract activity in 2001.” in October. Year-over-year, signings fell 1.4%.

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NAR: Appraisal License Equivalency Credit for RE Agents?

Appraisal Today

Counseling buyers, sellers, owners, and tenants on inspections and remediations, improvements, and the appraisal process. Counseling buyers, sellers, owners, and tenants about listing and offering prices, and market rent. I don’t know if Realtors can be re-trained to see value rather than price. They provide CMAs, etc.,

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Fannie Mae: No Appraisals Required? 3-10-23

Appraisal Today

How does an appraiser deal with the “ignorance” (a lack of education, training, or knowledge…a person who is ignorant is one who is uninformed, or is unaware of a subject or fact)? acre lot The sellers are said to have loved Italy so much they wanted to re-create a taste of the place in their own backyard. Don’t argue with them.

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The evolution of the more productive real estate agent 

Housing Wire

Just how we do contracts now is so much faster. The back end systems, when we are listing something or putting something under contract, it is all just very seamless. We did have faxes, it wasn’t the beginning of time, but everything is almost instantaneous now.”. Brokerages Invest in Tech. Real estate agents are busier than ever.