• The financing gap that keeps starter homes out of reach,Alan Stalcup

    The financing gap that keeps starter homes out of reach

    I launched a condo conversion community recently. Units priced between $90,000 and $140,000. Sold six in the first week. Five of the six were seller-financed. Not because the buyers preferred it. Because conventional lenders couldn’t touch them. FHA couldn’t touch them. These were people with real i

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  • What mortgage professionals need to know about reverse mortgages,Finance of America

    What mortgage professionals need to know about reverse mortgages

    As America’s population ages, a growing number of homeowners are entering retirement with substantial housing wealth and new questions about how to use it. For mortgage professionals, that shift is creating opportunities to have broader conversations about housing wealth, cash flow and long-term fin

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  • Fresh off seed round, BrokerBot eyes next phase of brokerage automation,Jonathan Delozier

    Fresh off seed round, BrokerBot eyes next phase of brokerage automation

    For many real estate brokers, the daily barrage of agent questions — “Where’s the W-9?,” or, “What’s our commission split again?” — adds up to dozens of hours each month, often interrupting nights and weekends. BrokerBot, the artificial intelligence (AI) teammate platform built by Ribera AI, Inc. an

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