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Home Equity Investment Loan | Pros & Cons 2025
Key Takeaways HEIs provide upfront cash without monthly payments or new debt but you give up a share of your home’s future appreciation. Eligibility depends on factors like equity, property type and lender rules; expect an appraisal, pape...
Is Earnest Money Refundable? | Redfin
When you make an offer on a home, you’ll usually include earnest money – a good-faith deposit between 1% to 3% of the purchase price that shows you’re committed to the purchase. If the sale goes through, it’s applied to your down ...
Small real estate teams talk AI
“We have automated emails going out, drip campaigns,” he said. “But agents have to know the scheduling of that drip campaign. If they have a conversation with someone today, [they had] better make sure an email doesn’t go out tomorrow ...
Long Beach Warehouse On Market
A publicly traded real estate investment trust is taking the pause in the tumult over tariffs as an opportunity to unload a decades-old asset in Long Beach EastGroup Properties is asking $87.6 million for the 261,500 square-foot warehouse at 2...
Looking to boost housing construction, lawmakers seek to overhaul L.A.’s “mansion tax”
Lawmakers in Sacramento unveiled a proposal this week to overhaul Measure ULA, the so-called “mansion tax” in Los Angeles, as part of a larger gambit to keep a statewide tax cut measure from making it onto next year’s ballot.The legislat...
Down payment download: Mind your mortgage
Here is the third post in our new study series — Down payment download — detailing the monthly mortgage costs and benefits a persistent buyer achieves when prepared and shopping smart for sensible mortgage financing. This series is designe...
Mortgage Rates Just Saw Their Biggest Drop in a Year
You’ve been waiting for what feels like forever for mortgage rates to finally budge. And last week, they did – in a big way. On Friday, September 5th, the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate fell to the lowest level since October 2024. It ...
New York Top Real Estate Deals: Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2025
There were 247 transactions totaling $437 million recorded in New York City over the previous 24 hours as of 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 9.🏆 Residential: The priciest residential deal recorded in New York was for a Lenox Hill mansion. Martin...
