Real Estate

1. Search for properties in the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) or with your favorite real estate agency web-site. Compare and contrast the differences in listing and selling residential properties and specialized properties.

2. Discuss how a new agent locates new Real Estate listings. Who and what do you consider? Where is best to look?

3. How does a new agent properly prepare for a listing appointment?

4. Discuss potential difficult situations as a new Real Estate Agent and how to avoid or handle these situations

 

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Find and discuss a proposed (or recently adopted) zoning change (or issue) in the area you plan to practice real estate here in Texas. For terms of this discussion post, please reference a change or issue published within the last two years.

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What happens to an individual’s capacity to borrow as mortgage interest rates fluctuate?
How do extremely low interest rates compare to rapidly rising rates and how do these impact home sales?
What happens to home prices as interest rates fluctuate?
What happens to DOM (Days on the Market) – or how long it takes to sell the average home – as rates go up and down?
Review these questions and determine what the historic relationship between interest rates and home ownership is, and how the market is going currently.

 

 

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In a 5 page analysis, complete the following. (Cover sheet and References included in 5 page paper)
1. The importance of underwriting standards to a healthy real estate finance market.
2. Changes to mortgage underwriting standards prior to the real estate boom that may have helped the boom accelerate and also created the conditions for the real estate collapse.
3. Changes to mortgage underwriting standards after the real estate collapse that were enacted as a response to the collapse.
4. Give an example of current underwriting standards for any underwriting group.

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1. Please make a research “Average Price on Market” for residential property in your location city/town/state (approximate price range): *
2. Please make a research “Average Price on Market” for non-residential property in your location city/town/state (approximate price range): *
3. What can you tell about the demographics of your city/town/state? How well could we use this information for marketing ends? *
Your answer
4. Name at least two key players in the real estate market in your city/town/state: *