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How to become a luxury real estate agent

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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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Does Paint Color Impact Your Home's Value?

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Nowadays home buyers want to purchase homes that are updated. Updated homes will garner higher home values. Buyers are often more attracted to homes with exterior and interior paint colors that are trending versus paint colors of yesteryear. Popular exterior home colors come and go year to year.

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Unveiling DIY Project Resources to Boost Home Value

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We'll explore a plethora of resources available to homeowners, ranging from online platforms to in-person events, designed to empower and guide DIY enthusiasts towards maximizing their home's value. Homeowners can browse through countless photos, articles, and how-to guides to kickstart their DIY endeavors.

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Freddie’s Study, NPR Story Recall Notable Academic Hoax

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NPR topped the online edition of its article with the headline, “Black and Latino Homeowners are About Twice as Likely as Whites To Get Low Appraisals.” He submitted a pseudoscientific article to a cultural studies journal called Social Text. By design, his paper was strewn with nonsense. The problem?

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Race and the Property Valuation Industry

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This standard review process inherently reduces the likelihood that an intentional bias will significantly impact the values of appraisal reports. However, the husband and wife in this article are not valuation professionals. These color codes were designed to indicate where it was safe to insure mortgages. The answer….

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SmartZip Review: Can data improve your prospecting game?

Housing Wire

This snapshot can give you insight into how home values are performing for the market you want to focus on. Enhance your brand with custom landing pages designed to convert real estate seller leads. You can choose from four different landing pages, including Smart Home Price , which is a home valuation page.

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How Remaining Economic Life Works

Cleveland Appraisal Blog

Therefore, the remaining economic life of a home is the number of years remaining before the improvements on the site no longer contribute to the value of the property. We are going to need to obtain reliable data to calculate the replacement or reproduction cost of a home. That’s one reason why I write these articles.

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