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Opinion: Investors play key role in providing affordable housing options

Housing Wire

Investors provide capital necessary for many families to fulfill their aspirations of living in a house whether renting or owning. Selling a home typically involves nearly 10% in transaction fees between real estate agents , title companies, inspections, and other expenses. How can investors help with homeownership?

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New Western’s marketplace and other solutions to inventory crisis

Inman

Retail investors and local landlords offer real estate agents a wide array of options for staying active in a market bereft of traditional inventory, you simply need to know how to connect with them.

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Need to sell your house fast? Here are 7 great options

Housing Wire

COVID changed the real estate industry in a big way since it provided many people with an opportunity to work remotely and live almost anywhere. Investment homes often take longer to sell because your audience is other investors. Like anything in real estate, many factors affect how long it takes to sell your house.

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This Best Kept Secret Helps New Real Estate Agents Find Clients

McKissock

New real estate agents may find it difficult to establish themselves as a local expert in real estate—especially when they’re competing against seasoned professionals. One often-overlooked way to gain experience and insight into a local real estate market is to help renters seeking new apartments.

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Improving your real estate technology, from search to sold

Housing Wire

Whether you’re a real estate agent needing to spruce up the yard for an open house or a DIY landlord who needs ongoing yard care for your rental properties, you can manage it all from the TaskEasy app. Ryan has been a fix-and-flip investor for the past 10 years, investing in over 30 properties during that time.

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Through the eyes of the single-family rental lobby

Housing Wire

Selling out: America’s local landlords. Moving in: Big investors,” reads a Reuter’s headline from this July. “A Last month, Zillow said it was winding down its iBuying division, and courting corporate investors to buy its 18,000 homes remaining in inventory. rentals are owned by investors who own 10 or fewer properties.

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Inside the Realogy-Blackstone iBuying venture

Housing Wire

Chicago-based Home Partners is a corporate landlord that gives tenants an option to eventually buy their home. The Realogy/Blackstone foray comes at a pivotal, if not existential, moment for iBuying, which lets people sell their home for cash instead of listing it on the market with a real estate agent.

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