The Rise of Digital Closings
One of our service areas—Massachusetts—has joined fourteen other states in permitting its counties to utilize a new sort of notary [...]
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How Are Judicial Foreclosures Beneficial to Borrowers?
Foreclosure is not a word one regularly considers when pondering positives for borrowers in real estate. Yet there are a [...]
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How Dodd-Frank Provisions Affect Appraisal Management Companies (AMCs)
When the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (known colloquially as Dodd-Frank) was passed in the wake of [...]
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Some of the Most Common Issues We Find in Curing Title
In our business, there may arise any number of issues with the title to a parcel of real estate. The [...]
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Real Estate Investment: Flipping Houses
The concept of flipping houses—purchasing a home at a relative discount, performing a number of material enhancements or repairs, and [...]
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What the Fed Has to Say About Home Ownership
In a May report entitled “Report of the Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households in 2017,” the Federal Reserve Board (also [...]
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Some Ways to Save Up for a New Home
Anyone looking to buy a new home should know that they will need to put some money down in order [...]
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On Tapping Home Equity
A home’s equity—the difference between what its owner owes and what the home is worth on the market—is often considered [...]
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Land Surveys—the What, Where, When, and Sometimes Why
The What: Land surveys are representations that define the legal boundaries and features of a property in graphic fashion, similar [...]
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REI: What is a “Bridge Loan?”
It is uncommon for bridge loans to be used in the residential real estate industry, especially in the years since [...]
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What is a Reverse Mortgage?
As homeowners age, they find they have paid down a great deal of the principal on their home, and eventually [...]
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How Higher Mortgage Rates are Likely to Affect the Market—In the Short and Long Terms
An abundance of flawed assumptions seem to beset those who are unfamiliar with the real estate market. One of the [...]
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