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Most of us know home sharing platforms are a thing — but how about home swapping platforms? Yes, they exist. Hundreds of thousands of people have signed up for subscriptions, across the country and worldwide, so they can immerse themselves…
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Real Estate Apps: What’s Trending Out There?
Plenty of tech innovators are coming up with interesting options to support home buyers, agents, and window shoppers. Many have multiple useful features, and some are pretty fun concepts, too. Here are some of the standouts. Note: We’re not advertising…
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FTX Scandal: What Just Happened to Cryptocurrency, and Does It Affect Blockchain?
In March 2022, the White House formally accepted blockchain and crypto as valid innovations with strong use cases, important for U.S. technological progress. But any commercial innovation has to be balanced with consumer protection. And it can’t come soon enough.…
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Noticed Internationally: A Tale of Two Detroit Women, a Deed, and a Title
We regularly explore racial fairness issues in real estate. So it’s gratifying to find the topic noted in the international press. In addition to what this story tells us about Detroit home buyers’ struggles, it also points out why your…
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The Housing Market “Reset” Is Coming. Here Are 5 Tips to Protect Your Equity
The chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, wants to “reset” the U.S. housing market. By hiking interest rates, Powell claims to be forming a more “balanced” market between buyers and sellers. In other words, home values could be…
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Using a Quitclaim Deed: What Are the Drawbacks?
A quitclaim deed is a simple form that transfers a piece of real estate from one person to another. Any homeowner can fill out a quitclaim deed with their name and the name of the recipient, and the property’s existing…
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How Wall Street Real Estate Firms Get Richer—and Get Tax Breaks
After the 2007-09 financial crisis, a string of companies bought up foreclosed houses and flipped them into rental homes. Sometimes, they rented to the very same people whose homes were foreclosed and bought out. Ever since then, these firms have…
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About That Mortgage Interest Deduction
If you’re a mortgage borrower, you pay interest on your loan every month. As the end of the calendar year approaches, you’ve probably paid quite a lot of interest on your loan. The silver lining is your ability to add…
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How Does the IRS Check Primary Residence Status?
When you buy a home, it can be a primary residence, a second home, or investment real estate that you plan to rent out to others. Most individual home buyers are purchasing homes they want to live in — primary…
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Is Blockchain Stuck in a Bottleneck?
Blockchain is a perfect fit for real estate contracts. How so? Just imagine you’re signing a home purchase contract. You, like the other parties in the deal, have your copy of a smart contract. Not a third party — you.…
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Various Ways to Own or Co-Own a Home
If you’re like most mere mortals, your real estate will outlive you. That’s why your real estate title does double duty as an estate planning aid. It tells the world how the title can move on, whether or not there’s…
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Mortgage Companies Roll Out New Deals for Inflationary Times
As our readers know, the typical 30-year fixed mortgage rate is above 7% now — having surged several percentage points in just the past year. The tension is high for potential buyers looking for access to finance, and mortgage lenders…
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Remote Online Notarization Takes a Major Step in 2022
The House of Representatives has passed a bill that advances remote online notarization (RON) in a major way. Once the bill becomes law, it will establish nationwide standards for notaries to perform their work remotely. It’s the SECURE (Securing and…
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Deed Scam Update: Fake Documents Transfer Dead Floridians’ Houses
In Daytona Beach, a suspect has pleaded “not guilty” to organized fraud. The crime involved two homes, stolen by deed fraud, with multiple notaries enlisted as part of the scheme. The Volusia County, Florida suspect faces a first-degree felony charge,…
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In Virginia, Using Blockchain-Like Tech for Land Records
Land titles need to be stored for as long as the land lasts, and they need to be stored securely. They represent major investments. This is why the title insurance industry exists. Title fraud is one of the big threats…