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NAR board votes to leave dues unchanged in 2025

Housing Wire

Code of ethics changes In addition to voting on membership dues, NAR’s board of directors also voted to amend Article 4 of the trade group’s code of ethics, in an attempt to clarify Realtors’ obligations when they have ownership interest in a property. represent themselves 2. represent a member of their immediate family 3.

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Do Appraisal Gap Clauses Impact Appraisals?

Cleveland Appraisal Blog

An appraisal gap clause can be written into a contract. It states that the buyer will still purchase the home at the contract price, even if the appraised value is lower than the contract price by a certain amount. In this hot market, it’s not surprising that this type of clause is being written into some contracts.

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Top Producer Review: Features, pricing & alternatives

Housing Wire

In this article, we’ll review Top Producer’s comprehensive suite of solutions and the benefits of each tool in the Top Producer arsenal. Check out Top Producer Related articles The 9 top real estate lead generation companies for 2024 The ultimate guide to real estate lead generation ideas for 2024 The 11 best real estate CRMs for 2024

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The state of the homebuilding market

Housing Wire

This article is part of our 2022 – 2023 Housing Market Update series. Our upcoming State of the Residential Construction Industry (SORCI) Report will reflect how builders have braced for impact: Despite the rate of new contracts slowing, margins didn’t decrease. Homebuilding Contract Values.

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End of forbearance programs won’t result in housing crash

Housing Wire

Many other articles were written in tribute to this wonderfully talented group of internet crash callers. The two-month COVID-19-caused recession represented both the sharpest and the shortest economic contraction in U.S. Your HW+ Membership includes: Unlimited access to HW+ articles and analysis. ended in April 2020.

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How to become a luxury real estate agent

Housing Wire

What we would like to focus on for the purposes of this article are the top 10-20% premium properties in your market. Use this tool: Coffee & Contracts Thoughtfully designed by former real estate agent Haley Ingram, Coffee & Contracts offers a suite of upscale social media templates for every social platform.

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Redwood Trust plants flag in the massive home equity market

Housing Wire

That is done via what is called a home-equity investment contract, or an HEI. This week, Redwood and Point, the latter founded in 2014, announced that they have completed a first-of-its-kind securitization supported by those HEI contracts. Your HW+ Membership includes: Unlimited access to HW+ articles and analysis.

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