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Real estate appraisals: What agents should know

Housing Wire

You’ve found a house for your buyer or a buyer for the home you’re selling. What is a real estate appraisal? A real estate appraisal is the assessment of a property’s value. If the second appraisal comes back higher, buyers and sellers may feel more comfortable meeting in the middle.

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Savvy real estate agents look beyond ChatGPT

Housing Wire

Too many real estate agents are watching artificial intelligence (AI) from the sidelines, assuming technology will never replace them. They repeat the mantra “Home buyers and sellers will always need a real estate agent.” So how can real estate agents be so cavalier about their job? trillion to $7.9

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What to do when your buyer wants to make a lowball property offer

Housing Wire

What constitutes a “lowball” offer, when is it appropriate or not appropriate and how can you encourage your buyer clients to stop insisting on offering a price that’s unlikely to result in an offer? By definition, a lowball offer is an offer that is significantly below market value. See the difference?

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Seattle’s already-hot real estate market is exploding

Housing Wire

Buying your dream home starts with being a well-prepared buyer and beginning the mortgage application process before you even look at homes. Most of those workers saw their net worth increase in the past year, and they chose to invest much of that new money into real estate. Presented by: Citi.

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Total market value for US homes drops $2.3T from June: Redfin

Inman

In its latest real estate market report on Wednesday, Redfin said the total market value for U.S. homes dropped $2.3 trillion from June to December 2022 — the largest six-month drop since the Great Recession.

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What is the Difference Between Assessed Value and Market Value?

Lamacchia Realty

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ASSESSED VALUE AND MARKET VALUE? Two terms that often come up when buying or selling property are assessed value and market value. While these terms may seem similar, they actually represent two different values that can affect the pricing of a property.

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Loosening The Knot

Appraisal Buzz

Of course, this applies to the work of real estate appraisal as well. The transaction is a complex interplay between buyer and seller. Striving to look through the microscope of empirical thought, we must not forget that our subject is more than real property, it is real people. Well…we must synthesize them.

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