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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. This will help you set a realistic price and manage your sellers’ expectations. Not necessarily.

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Seller impersonation fraud threatens American homeownership

Housing Wire

With real estate inventory at a near-record low, buyers seeking a place to call home are facing stiff competition as bidding wars continue to be commonplace. Secret Service reported a steep rise in seller impersonation in an advisory it issued this year. We can reverse this trend.

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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. If so, what was the reason?

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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?

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The title industry’s latest cat-and-mouse game: seller impersonation fraud

Housing Wire

The threat posed by wire fraud has commanded quite a bit of attention from the real estate ecosystem. Secret Service , notified the title industry of a rise in what is known as vacant lot fraud, or seller impersonation fraud. Then, posing as the property owner, the scammer contacts a real estate agent to list the 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.

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How deal terms can affect a home’s value

Housing Wire

When we go through the brokerage valuation process, the product is Fair Market Value (FMV). This is essentially the home price that a willing homebuyer would pay a seller. FMV is based on what we consider neutral terms, where the risk is equally shared between the buyer and the seller. the purchase price).

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