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If you ask J.P. Morgan, you might be surprised at the answer. At a time when real estate and other private investments are undergoing a valuation reset, a recent J.P. Morgan report highlights cryptocurrency. It says digital currencies have overtaken…
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Real Estate Market Predictions: The Next Five Years
What is going on? Property values might level off, but the mortgage rate is the latest thing to soar. The typical rate is up by 2% over December 2021. So the hopeful home buyer continues to face difficult decisions. Many…
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How Delayed Financing Can Help an All-Cash Buyer
Buy With Cash and Borrow Later Some buyers wonder if they should stretch themselves and make all-cash offers to get homes in this seller’s market. When cash buying is a necessary strain, there is a solution: buy with cash, and…
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Can Home Renovations Affect My Real Estate Title?
Avoiding Surprises With Home Construction Renovating a home can indeed have an impact on the title. Or maybe two impacts. These concern liens and permits. Whether you are buying a renovated home or plan to remodel the house yourself, be…
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How to Do a Home Sale Between Family Members
The Non-Arm’s Length Transaction Most home purchases are arm’s-length transactions. That is, they normally happen between people who didn’t know each other before the house sale. When strangers sell and buy, each side is motivated to negotiate in a self-interested…
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Blockchain Makes Headway in Carbon-Busting
Not Ready for Prime Time in Mortgages, But… Despite the growing pains and the volatility, crypto assets (the good ones, at least) are finding their use cases. Numerous financial and tech giants are offering customers digital asset options, and investing…
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What Is an Implied Easement, and Could Your Property Have One?
An easement gives someone the right to use or control part of somebody else’s land. An easement can be deliberately created through the land owner’s permission. The parties can formalize this by writing up a grant deed, a quitclaim, or…
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Does the Government Seize People’s Homes?
Rising Profile Ahead for Eminent Domain When you think of eminent domain, what comes to mind? Perhaps you think of land that suffered some kind of toxic dumping or spilling, so that the government has to take it in order…
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Divorce, Property Division, and the Quitclaim Deed
Parting of the Ways Co-ownership of a house can unwind in several ways. One way is through divorce proceedings. You might be wondering how this works, and what kind of decisions have to be made. You might have questions about…
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Can I Quitclaim My House Into a Living Trust?
We’re glad you asked. You might have heard that a living trust can… All of the above are reasons many people use this method of passing their property along after they die. And a home is a typical piece of…
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The Bahamas: Reborn as a Blockchain Real Estate Hub?
Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, and Andrew Yang made appearances at the Crypto Bahamas conference this year. The blockchain company FTX, one of the event’s hosts, boasts Tom Brady in an Ambassador role. Co-hosting the event was SALT, the geopolitical thought…
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What Are Plat Maps?
A Closer Look at Closing Documents In each county a recorder of deeds keeps documents that show the makeup of the neighborhoods and the individual properties in the county, and the history of the titles. In addition to the real…
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Check on That Empty House.
Left Unoccupied? Clever crooks in Ohio, Maine, and many other regions are swindling people out of their homes by recording fraudulent quitclaim deeds. They’re doing it now, and they’ve been doing it for years. But now, property values have exploded.…
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Property Tax Assessments Rising Again in 2022-2023
You Might Be Eligible for Tax Breaks If you’re a homeowner, or you’re in the market to buy a home, the last thing you want to hear about is rising property taxes. But check those bills. Even though we expect…
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What’s a Hardship Affidavit?
Finding Mortgage Relief Options A homeowner’s hardship affidavit or hardship letter is a formal request to modify a home loan, to assist the mortgage borrower through financial problems. Some lenders don’t require the document. Their websites guide the borrower through…
