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Thinking of selling your real estate brokerage? Here’s how to prepare

Housing Wire

From a data lens, transactions can be broken out into three different stages: Valuation , Due Diligence , and Contract. Valuation – The valuation stage can also be considered the preliminary due diligence stage. Sellers must be prepared for complete transparency and to provide the innermost details of their company.

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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 to reduce appraisal turn times and improve the borrower experience

Housing Wire

This allows for a more objective analysis and better compliance, and often translates to a more efficient process with faster turn times, which allows buyers and sellers to transfer real property more cost effectively and with confidence. HW: What are some of the current challenges regarding property tax assessment?

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7 best real estate schools in Illinois (IL) for 2024

Housing Wire

Covers license law, real property, agency, state & federal laws, advertising, valuation, finance, real estate calculations, contracts & more + 15-hr Applied Real Estate Principles, an interactive course Leap Learning 60-hr Online Topics Package $419 60 of required 75 hrs. Self-paced. 15 of required 75 hrs.

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Commercial Real Estate Appraisal Review: Essential Handbook to a Necessary and Influential 2nd Opinion

The Robert Weiler Company

A real estate appraisal review is an excellent tool for a recently conducted commercial appraisal, to check if market comps and other property valuations remain the same. Who Conducts Commercial Real Estate Appraisal Reviews? Licensed and qualified real estate appraisers typically perform appraisal reviews.

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Working With Your Appraiser Helps Deliver a More Reasonable Value

Simonson Real Estate

The role of the appraiser is to provide objective, impartial, and unbiased opinions about the value of real property—providing assistance to those who own, manage, sell, invest in, and/or lend money on the security of real estate.

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Why price per square foot is not the appraisers choice

Annarbor Appraisal

Often, buyers and sellers are under the impression that it is simple to price a house by its square footage. This is the same idea behind price per square foot for real property valuations. If you have questions about how an appraiser values a property, please reach out to your local appraisal expert and ask questions.