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

Housing Wire

For instance, Opendoor was founded in 2014 to make buying a home more efficient – or as they say “reinvent life’s most important transaction.” In the last decade, we’ve seen several digital companies and startups use algorithms and technologies to fix specific pain points in the home-buying process.

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River Oaks Houston Homebuyers Guide

Houston Properties

One of Houston’s older neighborhoods, River Oaks was developed by brothers Mike and Will Hogg, along with their business partner Hugh Potter. It features classic French cuisine with modern American influences. Like most Houston neighborhoods, new development is reshaping River Oaks.

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Will Springer Realtor - Untitled Article

Will Springer Realtor

They have also been spending oodles of money to shape their residences to meet new living needs – modern and spacious, when possible – as households live in their homes for longer. such renovations to these homes (between 20 and 39 years old), with about 200,000 of those projects running north of $25K each. 2 in the U.S.

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JUST IN TIME: THE 15-MINUTE COMMUNITY

Will Springer Realtor

Urban planners have a name for it: the 15-minute neighborhood and it is already in development in parts of the country, including Seattle. Where would you like to see this type of neighborhood development? THE ROI OF HOME RENOVATION. Make sure residents can get to their employer and to a jobs center. Send me a message.

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FHA Commissioner Julia Gordon gets to work

Housing Wire

During her visits, one thing stood out to Golding, who served as the Department of Housing and Urban Development ’s principal deputy assistant secretary from 2015 to 2017. During the hearing in 2015, Gordon said that the FHA should focus on improving its program that allows homebuyers to include renovation and repair costs in their mortgage.

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