Have A Condo Listing? What Listing Agents Can Do To Ensure Faster Closes & More Marketability

December 5, 2024/in Homebuying, JVM's Daily Blog

No matter how strong a borrower is, lenders will often recommend not waiving contingencies if the borrower is buying a condo. This is because lenders need to ensure that the condo complex is “warrantable” – or compliant with the criteria set forth by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, or similar entities to make the condo eligible for financing.Read More

Listing Agents Speak! (About Representing BOTH Buyers & Sellers/Dual Agency)

May 24, 2021/in JVM's Daily Blog, Homebuying, Real Estate

On Friday, I blogged about Buyers Working Directly with Listing Agents Instead of Using a Buyers Agent, and I received a surprising amount of feedback. What was even more surprising though was that most of the feedback was from listing agents as opposed to buyers agents – and all of them were opposed to dual agency (representing both buyers and sellers for the same transaction).Read More

Buyers Going Straight To Listing Agents – Does It Work?

May 21, 2021/in JVM's Daily Blog, Homebuying

On Monday, our Marketing Director (Lindsey) blogged about her Homebuying Hell and what she had to go through in her entry-level market. Every offer she made was at least 15% over the list price and she was still losing out. So, a mere 2% premium would have been laughable. This is the case in almost all of the markets in which we are currently lending.Read More