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A new source of affordable housing inventory: Private seller auctions

Housing Wire

New marketplace for motivated sellers That is good news for sellers like Ricardo Sims, the out-of-state landlord who sold the Montgomery properties to Richards via SmartSale. Very tired landlords, Richards said, describing some of the motivated sellers utilizing private seller auctions.

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Housing Market Forecast: Unpredictable Mortgage Rates to Shake Up 2025

Appraisal Buzz

With more properties available to buyers, sellers will be under pressure to compete. A large decline in mortgage rates is expected to increase competition and provide sellers more negotiation leverage by bringing more buyers than sellers back to the market. Americans have also began to embrace small-home living.

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Realtor scripts for managing seller expectations

Housing Wire

We all know that sellers hear what they want to hear and believe what they want to believe when it comes to how market conditions will impact the sale of their home. It is still a sellers’ market, just not the frenzy that it has been. Below I share some of my scripts for having those tough conversations with your sellers.

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Property management software: Why more Americans firing their property managers

Housing Wire

Finding the best tenant is an uphill battle for some landlords. Then, they often face dissatisfied tenants, pesky maintenance issues, and tenants who cant or wont pay their rent on time and in full. In todays shifting economy, buyers arent willing to pay the amount sellers are asking for. Managing tenants is hard.

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Lease-Purchase Arrangements: Another Path to Homeownership?

Appraisal Buzz

Under a lease-purchase arrangement, the property seller also acts as the landlord. The buyer rents the home as a tenant first, typically paying an up-front fee or down payment under an option contract to preserve the right to purchase the property within a set time period.

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Streamline Real Estate Management With Mobile Forms

GoForrmz

Optimize your real estate management with digital forms Property management and real estate are dynamic industries with responsibilities that constantly shift, ranging from tenant placement to ensuring compliance with real estate board regulations. Prospective tenants, sellers, and brokers expect quick responses and seamless interactions.

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Single-Family Rents Climb to Record High

Appraisal Buzz

Instead, in an effort to attract tenants, property managers are increasingly using concessions. If all goes well, the recent trend of sellers going back into the marketsome perhaps not believing that mortgage rates will fall soon enough to help their own purchasing circumstanceswill continue to pick up steam in the next year.

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