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Selling your home? Make sure you’re aware of hidden costs

Housing Wire

Working with a real estate agent isn’t free, but it takes the work off your plate as a seller. A real estate agent finds potential buyers, arranges housing tours and handles all the paperwork and coordination between all the parties involved. A concession is when the seller agrees to pay part of a buyer’s closing costs.

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Agent strategies for getting first-time homebuyers across the finish line

Housing Wire

Here are the following strategies agents can use to guide first-time homebuyers toward achieving this monumental step. Homebuyers using a variety of mortgage loans to finance their home purchase are eligible to use assistance options to help with their down payment and/or closing costs. I’ll explain later.)

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Selling your home to a family member in 5 easy steps

Housing Wire

The majority of real estate sales fall under this category and usually employ a buyer’s and seller’s agent who negotiate on behalf of their respective parties. Contingencies in the agreement protect both parties if problems arise during the appraisal, inspection, or financing stages of the transaction.

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An inside look at local housing markets across the country

Housing Wire

Local real estate agents, loan officers and appraisers share what characteristics are currently defining their housing markets. This is sick, and I want it to end,” said Sharon Aubuchon, a RE/MAX Premier Realty agent in Prairie Village, Kansas a suburb of Kansas City. “It Kansas City, Missouri.

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UWM rolls out construction-to-permanent loans

Housing Wire

“The streamlined process and certainty One-Time Close New Construction loans offer is unmatched and will set brokers up to be the hero with builders, real estate agents and contractors, and get their borrowers in their dream home,” Mat Ishbia , president and CEO of UWM, said in a statement.

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Sundae raises $36 million in Series B funding

Housing Wire

If the seller accepts the offer and an inspection is completed, Sundae offers a $10,000 cash advance prior to closing to help homeowners with moving costs and other expenses. Sundae doesn’t charge closing costs or agent fees, but charges buyers in its investor marketplace a fee when it “assigns” them a property.

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Can You Avoid Closing Costs? Tips to Reduce Them

HomeLight

Whether you’re buying or selling, you’re probably wondering how to avoid closing costs. Unfortunately, there’s no way to eliminate them altogether, but there are ways you can lower your closing costs regardless of the state of the market. Inspections and home appraisal fees. Title and settlement fees.