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Lower mortgage rates are stabilizing the housing market

Housing Wire

Since they were distressed forced sellers, inventory skyrocketed in 2006 and stayed very elevated in 2007 and 2008. million, the equilibrium balance between a buyer and seller marketplace that has been here for four decades. As we can see below, none of that is happening today because the seller isn’t stressed. Total inventory levels.

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VA Approves Desktops and Exterior-Only Appraisals

Appraisal Today

Fannie: Learn how valuation modernization is changing collateral underwriting – Video, 1 hour, 23 minutes. Excerpt from emailed notice: “Valuation Modernization: New perspectives on collateral underwriting” is a must-see for underwriters and appraisal reviewers. For more details and graphs, click here. 250,000 List price Pending.

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Opinion: ICE’s Joe Tyrrell on the Black Knight acquisition

Housing Wire

Since the announcement , we have heard from a number of lenders and partners about their excitement over our ability to accelerate the digital journey of our industry, our ability to invest in the modernization of the MSP servicing platform, and the open technology approach we bring to the deal.

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Appraisers and Property Data Collectors

Appraisal Today

NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on Liability, Bias, reviewers with little experience, GSE modernization, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc. Will Jazz Icon Dave Brubeck’s Former Midcentury Treehouse in NorCal Sway a Buyer for $3M? Excerpts: 4 bedrooms, 4 baths, 2,652 square feet, 0.29

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FHA: Cosmetic vs. MPR Repairs

Appraisal Today

NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on appraisal “modernization”, bias hearing, bad appraiser, USPAP, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc. == Appraiser pleads guilty in $1.3B billion tax fraud scheme. Owners with conservation easements can claim an income tax deduction.

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Appraisers and Local Market Analysis

Appraisal Today

It’s a modern Cape with two bedrooms upstairs and two downstairs,” Maiser says. But what will happen in the future when buyers say they paid too much or lenders say the appraisal was too high or not USPAP compliant for appraisals you did in the past? It started in 2007 in Vacaville, near Sacramento, CA. Cost to cure? Adjustment?

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Will Springer Realtor - Untitled Article

Will Springer Realtor

They have also been spending oodles of money to shape their residences to meet new living needs – modern and spacious, when possible – as households live in their homes for longer. years, according to recent data, when it was only about five years just before the housing market crash of 2007. And, opening this year, Graystone.