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Homeowners and Buyers Reveal the Most Desired Home Trends for 2025

Appraisal Buzz

When the sun isn’t shining or there is a power outage, whole-home batteries can be used as a generator by storing extra energy from solar panels. Zillow’s for-sale listings now include 18% more references to solar panels and the terms “sustainable” and “green.” Solar electricity isn’t the only source.

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Keller Williams’ advice for lead generation? ’Get smarter by making offers’

Housing Wire

These offers can include providing sellers an immediate cash offer, upfront loans for home improvements, and giving special incentives to essential workers such as police officers, nurses and teachers. The brokerage utilizes a method it calls “make offer for immediate response,” or MOFIRs. It’s gone incredibly well.

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Study: Real estate firms thrive on repeat and referral business

Housing Wire

For reference, in 2018, zero one-office firms recorded a sales volume above $250 million. The share of firms making a percentage of net revenue from ancillary services, such as relocation services, mortgage lending, title and escrow services, and home improvement services, increased from 39% in 2018 to 42% in 2021.

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FAR parent updates investors on AAG integration, business performance

Housing Wire

Last July, the company sold its title insurance business to Essent Group , followed by strategic changes in September including a transition of its offshore-based operations to a team in the Philippines and the sale of “certain operations” of its home improvement lending business to Aqua Finance.

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Home Improvements: What counts towards the appraisal?

Padove Appraisal Service

I am often asked which home improvements “count” towards the appraised value of a house. Many people envision a list of improved items with predetermined relevancy, along with a specific dollar value assigned to each of those items. Chronological age refers to the actual age of the dwelling. it all counts!

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What renovations will add value to my home?

Housing Wire

That’s partly why people are spending significant time, energy and money on home renovation projects these days. It’s no secret that home improvements can be a costly endeavor. If you’re looking to increase the value of your home or prepare it for resale, certain renovations may take its appeal to the next level.

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Sold.com partners with Revive to offer renovation services

Inman

The new partnership will allow Sold.com partner agents to refer their clients more easily to Revive's renovation network.