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Homebuyers are taking more risks in an obstacle-filled market

Housing Wire

Property insurance premiums and property tax hikes have also added financial strain, particularly in disaster-prone regions like the Southeast and West, where insurance carriers are passing on higher costs to homeowners. I believe the concerns for the market at this point are dramatically related to geographics.

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Severe storm fallout could destabilize the intersection of mortgage and insurance

Housing Wire

The home insurance marketplace has been facing a reckoning. The challenges that higher costs place on carriers, regulators , lenders and consumers has been well documented this year, and the acceleration of extreme weather events has only made things worse. Stork relayed a personal anecdote.

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NRMLA opposes New York reverse mortgage disclosures bill

Housing Wire

Instead, the proposed bill duplicates existing disclosure requirements under New Yorks Code of Rules and Regulations with the exception of the addition of a new document that NRMLA said has more potential for confusion than it does for enhanced consumer protection. In 2021, Gov.

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Eight states now have more unsold inventory than in 2019. Here’s why.

Housing Wire

Colorado — which still has fractionally fewer homes on the market than 2019, but is next in line to cross over — has property tax relief on the ballot this fall because homeowners are paying so much more in taxes after the sharp rise in home prices of the last four years. We sell more, that adds to inventory. What happens next?

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How the title industry is addressing the negative effects of heirs’ property

Housing Wire

If a person passes away without an end-of-life document, a property often becomes heirs’ property, meaning that it is passed informally to the next generation without a proper title documenting ownership. According to a 2023 survey by Caring.com, only 34% of Americans have an estate plan.

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Unwrapping what to expect in your home inspection, appraisal and closing

Housing Wire

During closing, buyers sign several legal documents and pay additional fees, some of which are recurring costs like property tax. Before being handed keys to their new home, buyers have to go through the closing process, which finalizes the home purchase.

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PA judge decides reverse mortgage gets first-priority in foreclosure dispute

Housing Wire

A reverse mortgage loan has first-priority status in a Pennsylvania foreclosure dispute, after initially being rejected by the trial court according to court documents reviewed by HousingWire s Reverse Mortgage Daily (RMD), and an analysis by attorneys at law firm Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer, P.A. with a traditional mortgage. [The]

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