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Balancing Risks and Rewards Home flipping is no easy feat, and it’s getting even harder. Just ask Zillow. Flipping a home, of course, means buying it, sprucing it up, and promptly putting it back on the market for sale.…
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What Every Home Seller Should Know About Choosing the Best Offer
Is Highest Always Best? If you’re selling your home and have attracted multiple bids, super! Now, how do you choose the best offer? According to the National Association of REALTORS®: Your listing broker can explain various negotiating strategies for you…
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United Wholesale Mortgage to Accept Crypto— Wait, Never Mind.
Not too long ago, we reported on United Wholesale Mortgage and its eye-catching plan to accept cryptocurrencies for mortgages by late 2021. As we wrote then: Whether the idea will find adherents remains to be seen. Certainly, many UWM customers…
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Why Did Zillow Suddenly Pause Its Home-Flipping Business?
Unexpected Flip-Flop The online real estate company Zillow announced it was putting its iBuying business, Zillow Offers, on hold in mid-October. The company has been buying homes from eager owners who’d like to sell without handling repairs, tours, or closings.…
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Low Rates Correlate to Mortgage Application Fraud “Hotspots”—CoreLogic
Who’s Cheating and How Interest rates are down. Many buyers have jumped in to take advantage of the situation in recent months. Heavy home-buying traffic has led the mortgage industry to shift gears from refinancing to home purchases. Purchases now…
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Coinbase and Real Estate: Perfect Together?
Cryptocurrency is on a roll as we go to press. Things can change quickly in this arena, but right now, values are high. Bitcoin has never been higher. BITO, a new exchange traded fund (ETF) for bitcoin futures has come…
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Estate Planning With a Transfer on Death Deed
New Rules for California Homeowners Since 2016, California has been offering homeowners a very simple way to transfer their homes to beneficiaries. It’s called the transfer on death deed — also written as TOD deed, TODD, or beneficiary deed. A…
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Remote Online Notarization Wins Home Buyer Confidence
Are Federal RON Standards Coming? When people buy homes, they have the deeds notarized and publicly recorded in the home’s city or county. Traditionally, people have always gone to the notary public in person. This is changing. Since the Covid-19…
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When Homes for Sale Are Scarce… Should You Buy a Home at a Trustee Sale?
The inventory of homes is still very tight in desirable metropolitan areas. Hopeful buyers who have not been able to find homes may be wondering: Could I succeed in buying a house at an auction? An auction, also called a…
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Should Your Child’s Name Be on Your House Deed?
Compare the Alternatives Thinking of putting your child’s name on your house deed? If that’s the person who will get the home after you pass in any case, it might seem sensible. And maybe it is, in certain circumstances. After…
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Buying a Home From Out of State
Your Five-Point Plan A home purchase is one of the most rewarding investments most people ever make. That said, it can take courage to be a buyer. Unless the buyer is paying with cash — and few people can or…
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The Mansion Snatchers
Once upon a time in 2020, a Texas couple named Maria and Michael bought a $5.75 million-dollar waterside home in Redington Shores, Florida. They had no idea the deed had already been transferred to the Aura Church — by forgery.…
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Blockchain of the Rich and Famous?
Luxury Portfolio International now finds cryptocurrency closing in on gold as the most sought-after store of value among the world’s affluent people. The finding is based on a survey of more than 3,000 respondents, as noted in the firm’s report…
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High-Density Politics and Trends
In the Bay Area and Beyond, Housing Shortages Make Higher Densities Inevitable Governments are beginning to allow accessory dwelling units where they didn’t before. They’re rezoning to allow multiple homes per lot. They have to. They’re responding to a housing…
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I’m Transferring Trust Property. Do I Have to Provide Disclosure?
Understanding the Seller’s Disclosure Form If you buy a property from a trust, are you less protected by disclosure rules? If you’re transferring a deed to trust property, what do you need to know for proper disclosure? There is no…
