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New construction vs. resale homes: How agents can guide buyers in today’s market

Housing Wire

With high prices and still stiff competition, those looking to buy a home in today’s real estate market need to consider every opportunity, including the choice between new construction or a resale home. Census Bureau, the median sale price of a new construction home in March 2024 was $430,700.

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Polly CEO Adam Carmel on his mission: cutting costs for lenders

Housing Wire

When it comes to the technology, we use the most modern architecture and back end, which we built on a proprietary basis, that allows us to build using an unlimited amount of flexibility, configurability and granularity. And we have the strongest sense of urgency to build things as quickly as we possibly can in partnership with them.

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Appraising New Construction

Appraisal Today

6 Tips for Appraising New Construction Homes Excerpts: Lenders, FHA, and the GSEs (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) treat new construction a little differently. When appraising new construction homes, certain factors that don’t always apply to existing dwellings must be considered. Keep a file of local building costs 4.

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Opinion: Covid helps green the building industry

Housing Wire

The physical separation can be achieved through architectural design solutions for new construction or remodeling and creative space-planning ideas for previously established home layouts. Both can unravel the most sustainably designed and constructed healthy home-work environment.

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Proof that Building Codes Work? Punta Gorda

Empire Appraisal Group

Modern building codes could be one explanation. It’s a demonstration that updated building codes really work,” says Nicholas Rajkovich, an associate professor in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University at Buffalo.

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

Housing Wire

Proprietary analytics and external data sources, backed by a microservice architecture that connects them all via APIs, can feed optimized recommendations and assessments for any part of the sale — valuation, tax, credit score, loan rating, insurance rating, title and closing costs.

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Tips on appraising new construction homes

Appraisal Today

6 Tips for Appraising New Construction Homes. Excerpts: New construction is treated a little differently by lenders, FHA, and the GSEs. When appraising new construction homes, you must take into consideration certain features and attributes that don’t necessarily apply to re-sales. To read more tips, click here. By Mark Buhler.