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2024 Bidding Wars – How to Strike and Win

Lamacchia Realty

They should be well known, respected among agents in the area, and highly specialized in mortgage lending. Lenders lend based on the appraised value or purchase price (whichever is lower), so if you offer based on the higher list price, you’re responsible for covering the difference. Real estate is a long game.

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2022 Bidding Wars – How to Strike and Win

Lamacchia Realty

They should be well known, respected among agents in the area, and highly specialized in mortgage lending. Lenders lend based on the appraised value, so if you offer based on the higher list price, you’re responsible for covering the difference.

Sellers 72
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2023 Bidding Wars – How to Strike and Win

Lamacchia Realty

They should be well known, respected among agents in the area, and highly specialized in mortgage lending. Lenders lend based on the appraised value or purchase price (whichever is lower), so if you offer based on the higher list price, you’re responsible for covering the difference. Real estate is a long game.

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Opinion: FHA should lower Mortgage Insurance Premium

Housing Wire

Simply put, it looks at all the insured loans in the single-family business and factors in expected interest rates, home price forecast, default rates and severity rates over the entire duration of these loans, some of which will be on the books for 30 years. Just look at HUD’s own data on FHA lending: 1.

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