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A real estate agent with Re/Max shows a prospective buyer a home in 2014 that is listed as a short sale in Coral Gables, Fla. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) (Joe Raedle via Getty Images) 'An exclusive ...
A naked short sale occurs when a security is sold short without borrowing the security within a set time (for example, three days in the US.) This means that the buyer of such a short is buying the short-seller's promise to deliver a share, rather than buying the share itself. The short-seller's promise is known as a hypothecated share.
That customary rate is no longer the default. Sellers can now expect to be asked for just one side of the commission pot, or what would now average 2.5% to 3%. "For the first time now, buyers will ...
Foreclosure is a legal process in which a lender attempts to recover the balance of a loan from a borrower who has stopped making payments to the lender by forcing the sale of the asset used as the collateral for the loan. [ 1][ 2] Formally, a mortgage lender (mortgagee), or other lienholder, obtains a termination of a mortgage borrower ...
For decades, if you wanted a real estate agent to help you buy or sell a home, the model was static. At the close of escrow, the seller typically used their proceeds to pay a 5% to 6% commission ...
The closing (also called the completion or settlement) is the final step in executing a real estate transaction. It is the last step in purchasing and financing a property. [1] On the closing day, ownership of the property is transferred from the seller to the buyer. In most jurisdictions, ownership is officially transferred when a deed from ...
With near-zero short-term interest rates and low 30-year fixed-rate mortgages (2.65%) in January 2021, prospective homebuyers were in luck. That luck is starting to shift, even for existing ...
Closing (sales) Closing is a sales term which refers to the process of making a sale. The sales sense springs from real estate, where closing is the final step of a transaction. In sales, it is used more generally to mean achievement of the desired outcome, which may be an exchange of money or acquiring a signature.