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When and How to Use an Escalation Clause

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...

Home Prices Up By 6.8% Year over Year, Says Corelogic® Report

(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...

CFPB Files Against Provident Funding Associates for Discriminatory Mortgage Pricing

(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...