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Download these 9 real estate prospecting letter templates that actually work

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Check out these nine downloadable real estate prospecting letter templates to help you make an impression in your neighborhood or zip code. My name is (your name), and I’m a licensed real estate professional with (your brokerage). Please think of me as your go-to resource for all things real estate.

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Opinion: The elephant in the real estate room? Lowballed appraisals

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The Brookings Institution summed it up well: “Today, downtown Detroit is nearly unrecognizable from previous decades, with new features such as the QLine streetcar system, a renovated Detroit Tigers ballpark, a riverwalk, and Campus Martius Park. This data for Detroit is twice as high as the rest of the state of Michigan.

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How to price homes properly in a volatile housing market

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We’re just trying to move inventory quickly,” said Lee Kearney, a Tampa, Florida-based real estate investor who has an inventory of between 15 and 20 homes for sale at any given time. “If Opendoor lost an average of $6,000 on Q4 2022 flips, down from an average gain of nearly $16,000 per property for homes flipped in Q4 2021.

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Change Lending to join Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco

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Change Lending’s services include small-business loans and lines of credit, investor real estate loans, rehab loans and renovation loans, according to its website. billion in 2022 production volume, per Scotsman Guide. Last year, Change Lending ranked as the top nonqualified mortgage (non-QM) originator, posting $4.1

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PunchList USA names chief product and data officer 

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PunchListUSA , a real estate technology platform digitizing home inspection data, has named Stefan Pampulov as its chief product and data officer. Pampulov comes to PunchList USA with two decades of experience in real estate data strategy and product development.

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loanDepot CEO talks ‘longer and tougher’ mortgage cycle, NAR settlement and cyberattacks 

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That’s kind of evaporated,” Martell said on Tuesday morning in a session during The Gathering , HousingWire’s real estate and mortgage conference held in Scottsdale, Arizona. million loss in 2022. . “On the cost side, obviously, we’re tightening our belts,” Martell said. Judge Stephen R.

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Hometap reaches $1B in home equity investments 

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Of the $1 billion total, $730 billion has been deployed since 2022, and the company has issued more than 10,000 HEIs in total as of January. homeowners with outstanding mortgages, or some 63% of all homes, equity tied up in real estate jumped by 6.8%

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