by Jeff Sorg | Mar 24, 2016 | Mortgage, Real Estate
Find out about this tool used by real estate agents to eliminate competing bids by automatically raising an offered price By Jeff Sorg, OnlineEd Blog (March 17, 2016) – The escalation or escalator clause is a clause in a real estate sale agreement that, under...
by Jeff Sorg | Jun 2, 2015 | California Real Estate, Contractor, Georgia Real Estate, Mortgage, Nevada Real Estate, Oregon Real Estate, Real Estate, Washington Real Estate
(Jeff Sorg, OnlineEd) – CoreLogic® has released its April 2015 CoreLogic Home Price Index (HPI®). The nationwide index shows that home prices, including distressed sales, increased by 6.8 percent in April 2015 compared with April 2014. This represents 38 months...
by Jeff Sorg | May 29, 2015 | California Real Estate, Georgia Real Estate, Mortgage, Nevada Real Estate, Oregon Real Estate, Real Estate, Washington Real Estate
(Jeff Sorg, OnlineEd) WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a joint complaint against Provident Funding Associates for charging higher broker fees on mortgage loans to African-American and...
by Jeff Sorg | Oct 16, 2014 | California Real Estate, Georgia Real Estate, Mortgage, Nevada Real Estate, Oregon Real Estate, Real Estate
(Jeff Sorg, OnlineEd) – Funded through HUD’s Fair Housing Initiatives Program (FHIP), the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has awarded $38.3 million to over 100 fair housing organizations and other non-profit agencies to address...
by Jeff Sorg | Sep 24, 2014 | California Real Estate, Georgia Real Estate, Mortgage, Nevada Real Estate, Oregon Real Estate, Real Estate
(Jeff Sorg, OnlineEd) – The US Circuit Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit, has issued a decision upholding a district court ruling that several defendants in the US and Canada deceived consumers through a telemarketing scheme designed to sell phony mortgage...