PROPERTY MELD TO RELEASE AI SUITE ADDRESSING KEY CHALLENGES IN PROPERTY MAINTENANCE COMMUNICATION

Property Meld, the leading residential property maintenance software company, announced today a suite of AI Communication tools aiming to solve the significant challenges around correspondence throughout the lifespan of a maintenance request. The suite, launching on December 15, 2023, focuses on three major problem sets that impact the absorption of information, oversight, and efficiency for several critical stakeholders in the maintenance operation. “We’re incredibly excited to innovate in the property

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Redefining Rehab Standards 

Clint Lien is the Executive Vice President of The Bluebook International, a company that provides solutions for real estate investors to help them estimate rehab costs efficiently and accurately. He has been in the industry for years, helping provide reliable resources for real estate investors, and he is on the show to help us better understand the work that goes into rehabbing properties and how we can be more efficient

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Zillow predicts more homes for sale, improved affordability in 2024

Home buying will remain expensive, so expect a competitive market for homes that need some work and for single-family rentals The housing market’s headline news this year has been the affordability challenge brought on by mortgage rates reaching 20-year highs. Looking ahead to 2024, Zillow® predicts home buyers will have a bit more breathing room — but only a bit.  Buying a home will remain expensive, keeping pressure on the rental market

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COST OF HOME REPAIRS INCREASES BY 6.6% FROM Q3 2022

Prices rise nationally by more than 64% over the past decade The cost of home repairs and remodeling in the third quarter of 2023 jumped by 6.6% nationally compared to a year earlier according to the new Verisk Remodel Index. Costs rose 1.7% from the second quarter of 2023 and are at the highest levels in the past decade, rising over 64% from the first quarter of 2013. The Verisk

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HOME-MORTGAGE LENDING DECLINES AGAIN ACROSS U.S. DURING THIRD QUARTER AS MORTGAGE RATES CLIMB

Residential Loans Drop 3 Percent After Brief Second-Quarter Surge; Purchase and Home-Equity Lending Both Down 7 Percent Following Earlier Gains; But Refinance Activity Rises for Second Straight Quarter ATTOM, a leading curator of land, property, and real estate data, released its third-quarter 2023 U.S. Residential Property Mortgage Origination Report, which shows that 1.54 million mortgages secured by residential property (1 to 4 units) were issued in the United States during the

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Decoding Real Estate Investment Trends

John Beacham is the founder and CEO of Toorak Capital Partners, a company that works with lenders across the US and UK to originate business-purpose loans. He has decades of experience in leading financial institutions and building successful businesses and he is with us on the show to talk about things that we need to be focused on in today’s market if we want to succeed as investors. Listen now

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