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Like it or not, desktop appraisals are here to stay

Housing Wire

Desktop appraisals arrived in March of 2020, allowing the housing market to keep humming while many stayed indoors to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Loans for second homes, investment properties, cash-out refinances, construction loans, multi-unit properties, renovation loans, condos, co-ops or manufactured homes are not eligible.

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Opinion: Can tech and iBuyers fix the real estate market?

Housing Wire

commercial spaces/building and residential homes/townhomes) and inconsistent transactional processes, fragmentation in the market has prevented real-estate from adopting technology as quickly as other sectors – until now. While each of these digital companies successfully addressed a problem in the market, other pain points still existed.

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Michigan Travel Destinations – Mackinac Island

Berkshire Hathaway

Based on a former trading post, Fort Mackinac was constructed on the island by the British during the American Revolutionary War. 7504 Market Street, Mackinac Island, Michigan 49757, 9 06-847-3885. Insect World was a part of the building that we renovated in 2006 and turned into an attraction, as an addition to the butterfly exhibit.

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SFR, fix-and-flip sectors are in a ‘bit of a malaise’

Housing Wire

The single-family rental (SFR) sector and its close cousin, the fix-and-flip market , are now essentially treading water in an environment of high interest rates , approaching 8%; high home prices; and a dearth of home-purchase inventory. That’s particularly true for mom-and-pop investors across both market segments.

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Are you better off moving or refinancing?

Cornerstone

percent of mortgaged residential properties in the United States were considered equity-rich in the second quarter, meaning that the combined estimated amount of loans secured by those properties was no more than 50 percent of their estimated market value. percent mortgage rate ( the average for 2006 ; 6.65 For example:**.

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Cohousing’s Intentional Lifestyle Gains Appeal Among Seniors

Will Springer Realtor

As the number of households aged 65 and over increased by more than a million each year since 2014, there is solid evidence of many people nearing retirement wanting to stay in their existing surroundings, even renovating the home to be more accessible for years to come. was established in 2006 in Davis, Calif.

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Recapping Some of the 2017 Real Estate News that is Impacting Investors

Patch of Land

Investors Enjoy a Resurging Market. But thanks to low interest rates and increasing home prices in the current market, there is a resurgence in home flipping. percent of nationwide home sales were flips, and represented the highest amount since 2006 according to ATTOM Data Solutions. Last year, 5.7 New Home Sales Grew by 18.9