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Blue Sage Solutions launches digital servicing platform

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Blue Sage Solutions’s primary product offering is a cloud-based digital lending platform designed to operate in the retail, wholesale, and correspondent lending channels while ensuring compliance. Founded in 2011, the company is headquartered in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.

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Mauricio Umansky wants the real estate industry to ignore the ‘noise’ around the NAR settlement

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In 2011, he founded the innovative brokerage The Agency RE, and he recently launched a real estate agent trade group that aims to serve as an alternative to the National Association of Realtors (NAR). I’ve gotten into interior design. The Italian interior design and the furniture that’s coming out, it’s so cool.

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There Goes the Neighborhood.

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The space shuttle program finally came to an end in 2011, primarily due to its outdated design, aging technology, and its inability to meet the evolving goals of the organization. The primary reasons for this decision are its outdated design, aging technology, and inability to meet the evolving goals of the organization.

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Older Americans are ‘splurging’ on home modifications to support aging in place

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One profiled couple in California hired an interior designer for $20,000, and spent another $95,000 on home modifications designed to more easily accommodate natural limitations to mobility that come from aging. homes combine single-floor living with no-step entry, and halls and doorways wide enough for wheelchairs,” the story said.

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As home prices increase, sellers have the upper hand

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For the second consecutive month, Fannie Mae’s Home Purchase Sentiment Index, a composite index designed to track consumers’ desire to sell or buy a home, gained 3.5 points, but has recovered more than half of its early pandemic-period decline when April’s HPSI hit its lowest reading since November 2011. points in September to 81.

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AARP reveals proposals for national plan on aging

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homes have key accessibility features (down from 4% in 2011 ), a national plan on aging can help develop universal design standards to address these challenges that will become more pronounced as the population ages.

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Indie brokerage Nationwide Real Estate Executives joins eXp Realty

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In a statement, Owen said he grew NRE from one agent in 2011 to 1,000 agents less than a decade later. In addition to the brokerage, Owen also owns a property management company, an escrow firm, a commercial real estate arm and a design-and-construction firm. He built his independent brokerage by attaching it to his real estate school.