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Why a California law to create housing units hasn’t worked

Housing Wire

Local officials throughout the state have created limitations on height, square footage, architectural style and landscaping, making it more difficult for homeowners to comply and turn a profit, according to the Journal. California cities reported 194 lot-split applications in 2022 and 321 last year.

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What Do Appraisers Look For in a Sales Contract?

Appraisal Today

What Do Appraisers Look For in a Sales Contract? Why must an appraiser be given a copy of the sales contract? Secondly, the appraiser is likely familiar with the local real estate contract forms, customary terms, and conditions of real estate transactions in the area, and might be able to identify irregularities and comment on them.

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The BIG Point of Sale integrates with ICE Mortgage Technology

Housing Wire

The POS system technology includes a mixture of consumer and origination portals in multiple formats, such as web landing page, mobile application, and kiosk, and uses the ICE Mortgage Technology API Platform to provide a unique single point of truth database architecture. “Our industry is going through some interesting times.

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

Housing Wire

Resale homes are typically ready for immediate occupancy, and a new owner can move in once the paperwork is complete and the mortgage has closed, sometimes as quickly as two to six weeks after the contracts have been signed.

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Blockchain today vs. yesterday – What’s different?

Housing Wire

Today, established actors in settlement services are collaborating on the same ledger with the same form of smart contract to eliminate transaction overheads. For example, the DLT and smart contract structure for trade transaction settlement are encapsulated by the vested industry actors.

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Math and empathy: Changing negative perceptions about real estate agents

Housing Wire

Just this week, I have spent time with successful people in the following pursuits: Technology consulting, software development, real estate sales, building construction and contracting, the law, nuclear physics innovation, advertising, medical sales, and product innovation. Also, architecture, store management, and payments services.

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Opinion: What the ICE-Black Knight merger means

Housing Wire

Lenders began to define the “trust model” of standards, contracts and shared services necessary to achieve cross industry interoperability. The power of innovation ICE’s network, data and trading system architecture can power innovation to transform fixed income capital markets.