This was very easy to see coming and something we called long before being interviewed by Realty Trac for their May 2014 article about the Atlanta market. The article addressed the very same concerns that we have been expressing; that the impact of the institutional investors has completely skewe
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05/21/2014
Demonstrating the epic stupidity that legends are made of, the esteemed new head of the FHFA Mel Watt made a few announcements on Tuesday. In short, they are designed to help the banks and expand credit access for “underserved borrowers.” Those folks in the middle...well you know the drill. These
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05/14/2014
What's old is new; Any national housing reports are nonsense in our opinion, as are reports on cities like Atlanta. It's impossible to call a market with such a large and open pool of data. We however, routinely pull data to see trends at the local level, down to the elementary school or subdivis
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05/09/2014
The real estate crash hit the appraisal industry harder than any other. The end result has been even more controversy as many experienced appraisers left the mortgage related side and those that remained become almost "radioactive". The role of an appraiser, how they work and their relationship w
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05/08/2014
39% of buyers would choose another home or another area...42% felt their agent could have done a better job...19% lacked confidence during the offer process...22% didn't fully understand the closing process... Those are among the results of a Chase Mortgage survey of 807 recent home buyers about
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05/06/2014