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How lenders can continue to serve borrowers despite housing affordability challenges

Housing Wire

HousingWire recently spoke to Finance of America Mortgage President Bill Dallas about viable alternative options for homebuyers and the innovative products FAM offers to meet the unique financial needs of today’s modern borrowers. Bill Dallas: As construction and labor costs have climbed, so, too, have home prices.

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Can 3-D printed homes help solve the housing crisis?

Housing Wire

To Ballard, 3D printing technology is evolving to solve a crisis in modern day America and the world: The failure to meet people’s demand for housing. A former Texas A&M cross country and track athlete and Episcopalian minister, Ballard in 2011 co-founded TreeHouse , a retailer to sell environmentally friendly home construction materials.

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Opinion: Can tech and iBuyers fix the real estate market?

Housing Wire

Similarly, companies like Zillow and Trulia launched in 2005 and 2006 as “real estate search engines” to help buyers more easily find a home online. For instance, Opendoor was founded in 2014 to make buying a home more efficient – or as they say “reinvent life’s most important transaction.”

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Like it or not, desktop appraisals are here to stay

Housing Wire

Loans for second homes, investment properties, cash-out refinances, construction loans, multi-unit properties, renovation loans, condos, co-ops or manufactured homes are not eligible. There’s still some battle scars from 2006 to 2009 where appraisers were made to be the scapegoats,” Pyle said.

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Appraisers: What should you have in your car?

Appraisal Today

Catskills Modern: ‘Sleeve House’ Highlighted by Charred Wood Exterior. Excerpts: An extremely modern home with an equally dark exterior is now available in Ancram, NY. Architect Adam Dayem designed the unique 2,500-square-foot residence, which was completed in 2017 after several years of construction. 2,500 sq.ft.,

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CAN HOUSING SHORTAGE CATCH UP TO EASTSIDE DEMAND?

Will Springer Realtor

All this tech construction gives new meaning to IT architecture! “A Another 1350 are under construction with delivery in the next two years, including the high-end Avenue Bellevue. BY THE NUMBERS. >> The average size of a newly constructed single-family home is now 2524 sq. million sq. That’s up from 2333 sq.

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100+ YEARS IN, ZONING LAWS INCH TOWARD HOUSING EQUITY

Will Springer Realtor

Suburban residents can be almost assured of the peaceful enjoyment of their home without worrying about a neighbor constructing a rollercoaster or baseball stadium next door. >> A full 19,396 apartment units are under construction in Seattle metro, according to a Q2 report from Berkadia, a U.S. . = Zoning laws in the U.S.

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