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The Appraiser’s Guide to Evaluating Home Value Before You Buy

Birmingham Appraisal

Strategies for Evaluating Home Value: What Buyers Need to Know When it comes to purchasing a home, understanding the various factors that affect its value is important. Evaluating home value is essential in this regard. Key Factors For Buyers to Consider 1.

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Purchasing & Developing Land - Part 5 - Reselling It - Raw or Developed

Eppraisal

Whether you decide to hold it and sell when real property values climb or -- alternatively -- develop the lot to convey at a higher price, you are subject to forces of market, timing and competition. By contrast, a homebuilder acquires raw land to build on and sell when home values are high.

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Biden tax credit to rehab homes is finally unveiled

Housing Wire

The Biden administration announced proposals to combat the racial wealth gap , including a tax credit to rehab homes for low and moderate-income homebuyers as part of the trillion dollar infrastructure package. In order for investors to qualify for the credit, buyers must make no more than 140% of area median income.

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Going to Extremes

Appraisal Buzz

And in some condominium markets in Florida, home values are taking a hit as insurance premiums skyrocket. ICON, an Austin based firm, has developed a 3D printed wall system. These homes can endure many of the climate risks very well and could transform affordable housing as we know it.

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Reverse purchase financing: The financing option no one is talking about

Housing Wire

This cohort accounted for 1,950,000 properties — equating to 39% of total homes purchased! 1 With over 12,000 Americans turning 65 every day in 2024, this burgeoning market will undoubtedly continue to bring more buyers and sellers to the table over the next decade. Yet staggeringly few are aware of its existence.

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Millions will enter housing market in 2021: Zillow

Housing Wire

“The pandemic has catalyzed purchases by millennial first-time buyers, many of whom can now work from anywhere.” Approximately 80% of those surveyed said they would like to view a virtual home tour and a digital floor plan before buying, if they were shopping for a home. Presented by: Propertybase.

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Savvy real estate agents look beyond ChatGPT

Housing Wire

They repeat the mantra “Home buyers and sellers will always need a real estate agent.” The history of AI and where it is going The Turing Test was developed by Alan Turing in 1950. Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is, “AI that can learn and perform most intellectual tasks that human beings can, including AI development.”