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The Appraiser’s Perspective: Insights and Tips for Real Estate Agents

Birmingham Appraisal

Appraisal Tips For Real Estate Agents As a real estate appraiser with over 30 years of experience, I have seen many changes and challenges in the appraisal profession and the real estate market. I believe that appraisers and agents have a common goal: to help their clients buy or sell a home.

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Understanding Appraisal Factors That Impact Home Sales: Insights for Real Estate Agents

Birmingham Appraisal

Appraisals provide an objective assessment of a property’s worth, ensuring accurate market value and facilitating successful transactions. Real estate agents, as trusted guides for their clients, must possess a good understanding of the factors that influence property appraisals.

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12 Questions to Ask Your Real Estate Agent

PennyMac

Whether you are buying or selling a home, your real estate agent will be your partner through one of the most significant transactions of your life. Finding the right agent should involve careful planning and research, but many of us just don’t know where to start. How long have you been working as a real estate agent?

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Valuing Your Home - AVM vs. Real Estate Agent

Eppraisal

While AVMs can be a useful tool for getting a ballpark estimate of a property's value, they have limitations and may not always provide an accurate estimate of the property's true market value. This knowledge can help them provide a more accurate estimate of your home's value based on current market conditions.

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

Housing Wire

Then, posing as the property owner, the scammer contacts a real estate agent to list the property. The property is then listed, typically below market value to generate interest in the listing. second only to Texas (14.6%), according to data from Realtors Land Institute and the National Association of Realtors.

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3 Types Of Appraisals Realtors Should Be Aware Of

Birmingham Appraisal

For the record, I will state that the goal of every appraisal is to estimate the market value of a home, usually for lending purposes. Whenever an appraisal waiver is used a traditional appraisal is not utilized to determine the market value of the assets the bank will be lending on.

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Joint ventures between title firms and real estate companies are under the microscope

Housing Wire

I know the one-stop-shop thing is cliché, but if you do it right, that can be a major benefit not only to the Realtor and the title company as ancillary income, but to the consumer who it is benefiting from efficiencies and better pricing through economies of scale,” LaRosa said. But the joint venture model may soon be on the way out.