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The Endangered Species Act (ESA) protects at-risk species. Most everyone supports its mission. But when it impacts the property they own, developers and landowners may believe the law clashes with their 5th Amendment rights. Why? The law regulates their use…
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New Fraud Fighter: The Good DEED Act
Deed fraud infects cities and counties all over the United States. This kind of fraud involves forging a deed, impersonating someone who holds a title to a home, or falsely authorizing a transfer of real estate ownership. It’s essentially a…
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Buying a House. How Much Do I Budget for Repairs?
All home buyers have some repair work ahead of them. Sometimes, only finishing touches are needed. In other cases, major systems need replacement. A new buyer should budget for significant costs in the first year. But the real kicker is…
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Home Prices Will Fall. But Affordability? Don’t Count on It
What’ll this market do in 2023? Economists envision home prices dropping throughout the year. A report from the research firm Capital Economics predicts an 8% drop, which is in the range others are predicting, too. Then, its forecast shows property…
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Is Home Swapping a Thing?
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…
