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SmartZip Review: Can data improve your prospecting game?

Housing Wire

SmartZip uses predictive analytics to pinpoint likely sellers from 6 to 18 months in advance, offering a huge advantage in today’s low inventory market. Use AI-powered lead generdation to identify high-priority sellers. This snapshot can give you insight into how home values are performing for the market you want to focus on.

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How to become a luxury real estate agent

Housing Wire

If you’re known in your market as the expert who successfully sells properties between $1 to $3 million, how do you start getting clients looking for homes valued at $10 million+? How do you convince the sellers of $15 million homes to work with you? Visit Coffee & Contracts 2.

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Finding an Agent: 5 Key Questions to Ask a Prospective Seller's Agent While Conducting Interviews

Eppraisal

Finding a seller's agent who will work hard for you and put your interests above their own is important. Here are five key questions to ask prospective seller's agents while you are conducting interviews. Will You Prepare a Comparative Market Analysis and a Detailed Net Sheet for Selling My Home?

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How a Seller’s Home Inspection Can Net You More Money When You Sell

Eppraisal

Home buyers almost always have a professional home inspection performed by a licensed inspection company when they purchase a home. However, it is not a bad idea for sellers to have a home inspection, or pre-listing home inspection, performed as well. They may ask for the issues to be repaired or replaced.

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Non-Arms Length Sales for Appraisers

Appraisal Today

The 7 Sale Types Explained Excerpts: An arm’s length sale – a sale in which the buyers and sellers act independently and in their own self-interest is the most common type of real estate transaction. A non-arm’s length sale in real estate is a transaction between a seller and buyer who have a connection by marriage, family, work, etc.

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The Many Shades of Earnest Money

Eppraisal

Earnest money is the money a buyer offers to have deposited at contract time to show he is earnest or serious about purchasing the home. As home values have been rising, so have earnest money amounts. How Earnest Money Works When you submit an offer to purchase a home, part of the contract deals with earnest money.

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What’s the Difference Between a Comparable Market Analysis and an Appraisal?

Eppraisal

There are two ways in which home values can be estimated by real estate professionals. The average consumer may not know the difference between the two, however, home buyers and sellers need to know. " All in all, a CMA is performed by a real estate agent for a home seller or a home buyer.