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By Moe Veissi, 2012 President, National Association of REALTORS®
Moe shares a huge victory for REALTORS® in Louisiana and the REALTOR® Party Initiative, where the two groups came together to permanently ban real estate transfer taxes in that state.
Bank of America is making a process change that will reduce cycle time and improve customer service for many short sales that are submitted with an offer. The change went into effect Dec. 1, 2011, and impacts all short sales submitted with an offer in which the homeowner is eligible (more…)
NAR President Moe Veissi made a forceful case before a key congressional committee yesterday to protect FHA from potentially destabilizing changes to the agency’s main insurance fund. Some lawmakers have been talking about curbing the agency as a step toward reducing the federal (more…)
Homeowners with mortgages owned by Freddie Mac or Fannie Mae will not have to worry about getting foreclosed upon during the Christmas season thanks to a [...] (more…)
Should Fannie and Freddie LEASE their massive inventory of unsold homes vs selling them as REOs? This approach has been tested in Florida with very mixed results. Is the government clearing the decks to become the nations largest land lord? Consider these facts: “The ‘inflection (more…)
How to buy a home after a short sale……can it really be done? The answer is yes (and it depends). The short answer (pun intended) is that you CAN buy after a short sale. However, if you missed payments prior to the short sale you are out of luck. It seems that the short (more…)
At Estately, we wondered why no one had covered how the Greek debt crisis affected Americans. We decided that an illustration might be the best way to make what is a very complex economic story easy to digest. The take away is that the Greek debt crisis has saved US homebuyers an (more…)
Washingtonians (of the DC variety), Annapolitans, Baltimoreans and their neighbors, we would like to apologize for providing you with a sub-par search experience recently. Recently some for sale listings on Estately were being removed from our map search before going off of the market. (more…)
Wonder what ever happened to the states Attorney Generals collective law suit again the major bank over all the foreclosure hanky panky? Just when the banks thought the whole thing was settled and they were off the hook for all their mortgage mis-deeds (pun intended) Its baaack…and (more…)