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Fidelity Competes with California Agents for Listings and Home Sales! (32)
5/16/13 •
Breaking News! Fidelity is competing directly with real estate agents for the tight inventory of available homes for sale in California. Did you know that Fidelity National Financial, Inc. “Fidelity” owns 100% of at least one California real estate brokerage company? We just learned that J. Rockcliff, Inc. is a Fidelity-owned company. According to their [...]
Leaving Blanks in the RPA: Taking on Someone Else’s Liability (11)
5/23/13 •
Would you be surprised to learn that some real estate agents are leaving BLANKS in the residential purchasing agreements (RPAs) when submitting to escrow? While this is not a legal practice, it appears that this is not an uncommon. Plus, it has induced some escrow officers to then fill in these blanks with their company-owned [...]
Will Bidding Wars Make a Comeback this Spring? (1)
5/22/13 •
Agents working with clients shopping for a home get ready cause this year we can expect competition. Homeowners who experienced hardship in the years of declining home values will be happy to know that the game has changed in their favor. Low mortgage rates and home prices have gained momentum, and an increasing number of [...]
First Bounced, then Bamboozled. Will Victims of Robo-Signing Banks Ever Receive Compensation? (0)
5/20/13 •
Missing funds, pointed fingers, and troubled borrowers being swindled out of government financial relief… hidden scandal… Hollywood movie or just a bureaucratic nightmare? Approximately 96,000 troubled borrowers were shortchanged on compensation from the most recent foreclosure settlement reached between the Federal Reserve and Goldman Sachs Group and Morgan Stanley & Co. The company hired to [...]
