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Offrs Review: Pros & cons, features, pricing, and alternatives

Housing Wire

Ads drive homeowners to a home valuation tool and lead capture, where they can drop in their email addresses to get a home value estimate. Territory Builder: Search by zip code and access contact information for all homeowners, as well as Offrs leads. How does Offrs’ AI-powered lead generation work?

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SmartZip Review: Can data improve your prospecting game?

Housing Wire

Exclusivity: No Trial period: No Contract requirements: Annual contract required SmartZip is a lead generation, marketing and CRM solution founded in 2008. Narrow your focus on homeowners with the highest probability of listing their homes and save time, effort and marketing dollars! Automated marketing: Yes.

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Home-equity niche will benefit from a private-label lift

Housing Wire

“After that time, HELOC production waned as defaults spiked and home values plummeted, and HELOC securitizations effectively stopped for nearly a decade. Those 17 deals were backed by home-equity collateral valued in total at $3.9 billion. “We Saluda is the borrower, and they face Barclays,” Craft explained.

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What’s influencing the increase in REO acquisitions?

Housing Wire

The good news for homeowners is that home values in most areas remain stable, and inventory levels for homebuyers are still low. Along with digital transactions that automate the entire sales process, from contract signing to closing, improving efficiency, reducing paperwork and speeding up the overall transaction timeline.

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Supreme Court orders review of recession-era class action against Rocket

Housing Wire

But they claim that Quicken Loans influenced appraisers to raise their home values and originate higher loans. According to the lawsuit, the Aligs, for example, estimated their home was worth $129,000, and provided the information to Quicken Loans. Messages left with plaintiffs’ attorneys were not returned.

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State of the mortgage industry half-time report

Housing Wire

In a survey of over 3,000 NextGen homebuyers , we found that lack of education and distrust hit the top of their list of challenges, while a demand for personalized information was key to winning them over. And one in four NextGen homebuyers stated that their biggest challenge while buying a home was a lack of understanding.

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Non-Arms Length Sales for Appraisers

Appraisal Today

You may report any other relevant information regarding the sale type in the appraisal report, including whether more than one sale type applies. This post’s information can be very helpful in explaining why. I have also done many relocation appraisals, done before the home is listed.