September 2025

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Downsizing Without Debt: How More Homeowners Are Buying Their Next House in Cash

If you’ve been thinking about downsizing to lower your expenses, be closer to family, or just make life easier, here’s a trend worth paying attention to: More homeowners are buying their next house outright, without taking on a new mortgage. And, if you’ve owned your home for a while, you may be able to do […]

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‘It’s complicated:’ brokers talk navigating MLS relationships at CMLS

According to Craig Cheatham, the president and CEO of The Realty Alliance, if you were to assign a Facebook relationship status to the relationship between MLSs and brokers it would be “it’s complicated.”  “The MLS is at once the most valuable tool of the broker and, at the same time, it is the thing at

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Making the 7-day refi reality: Why now Is the time to modernize the mortgage process

Imagine telling a borrower they can refinance their mortgage and close in just seven days. In 2025, that shouldn’t be a stretch – it should be the standard. We now live in a world of same day delivery for almost anything. But even though the technology exists to make the 7-day refi a reality, the

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