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Making a Strong Offer in 3 Strategic Stages You’re financially ready. You’re excited to be shopping for your new home. But you’re getting slammed by the competition! Now, how do you make offers with confidence and get your home purchase…
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The 1031 Exchange and Other Real Estate Tax Staples: Will the Biden Administration Make Changes?
In the $1.8 trillion American Families Plan, Joe Biden is looking at tightening up the tax code to move more funding into families and education. What tax provisions could be changed? The 1031 exchange (like-kind exchange) tax-deferrals for business or rental…
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Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and Real Estate Investments
Real estate is known as an illiquid asset. Turning real estate assets into cash is a complex, costly process. This is so, whether the owner is selling, or seeking profit from steady rental income. Returns on an initial investment are…
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Immigration for U.S. Real Estate Buyers
…And the Return of the EB-5 Investor Visa In the United States, real estate investment opportunities abound. International real estate buyers can earn profits and bolster the U.S. economy at the same time. Some people invest from outside the borders.…
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Creating Affordability: Deed-Restricted Workforce Housing
Buying a home is a major challenge for a large segment of our population, and many people can’t afford homes near the workplaces that need them. With the travel and hospitality sectors reopening for business, the problem is growing more…
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Blockchain Is Now Legal Tender In El Salvador. Real Estate Investors, Take Note.
June, 2021 — As Deeds.com readers know, we’ve been watching the steady emergence of blockchain for real estate applications. Blockchain, which was introduced to the world through Bitcoin in 2009, is here to stay. How can we say so? It’s…
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With Home Prices Soaring, Condos Are a Relative Bargain. Here’s How Their Deeds Work.
Home values shot up over the past year. Now, in the second half of 2021, demand remains high. But did you know that condo prices, on average, have only risen about half as much as single-family homes? The difference is…
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The Biden Administration Confronts Racial Bias in Appraisals
Black-owned homes are regularly low-balled in appraisals. It’s been happening for generations. Now, the Biden administration is confronting the issue. On June 1, 2021, the president said a new task force will deal with race-associated disparities in home appraisals. Housing…
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Selling Your Home? A Few Things to Know About Listing Agreements
You start off the marketing and sale of your home with a listing agreement. This document controls all the terms of the sale. It sets the keynote for a string of important decisions and legal agreements. In this article, we’ll…
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Extraterrestrial Real Estate: Is a Lunar Deed Legit?
If a company says it’s selling land on the moon, should we believe it? What about the planets? Is Martian land for sale? Is Venus available? Here’s the story so far.
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Buying a Floating Home? Here’s How to Plan Your Purchase.
Floating homes are hallmarks of many coastal and riverside cities. There are also amphibious houses — built on land, but capable of rising up off the ground when storm waters rush in. Flexible utility pipes move to meet the water…
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Solving the Affordability Problem
Can Deed Restrictions Include Rather Than Exclude? U.S. home prices have outpaced U.S. employees’ wages. This creates a number of problems in real estate. For one, it shuts a lot of people out of the market. Most of today’s renters…
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Navigating the Home Appraisal: A Buyer’s Guide
You’ve put in your bid for the home you want. Now you await the appraiser’s report. What’s going on behind the scenes? How the Appraisal Works in Most Cases The typical home appraisal relies mainly on local sales comparisons, or…
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Selling Your Home As-Is? Here’s What You Should Know
Is the hot seller’s market of Summer 2021 tempting you to put your home on the market and watch the offers roll in? To get ready quickly, you might wonder if you should put a clause in your contract to…
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How to Take Someone Off the Mortgage
What’s the plan when your spouse or co-borrower needs to come off the mortgage? Will you refinance, keep a modified version of the loan, or sell the home to pay the loan off? Here’s a quick Q&A to explore the…