• Seller Concessions in Orlando FL: A First-Time Buyer's Fall Guide,Rebecca Redman-Hamaoui

    Seller Concessions in Orlando FL: A First-Time Buyer's Fall Guide

    If you have been waiting out the Orlando-area market for prices to fall, here is what is actually happening this fall: the discount is real, but it is not always showing up in the price. A lot of it is showing up at the closing table. Nationally, sellers gave buyers concessions in 44.7% of August 20

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  • 4-Point & Wind Mitigation Inspections in Davenport & Ocoee FL,Rebecca Redman-Hamaoui

    4-Point & Wind Mitigation Inspections in Davenport & Ocoee FL

    Two buyers write offers on the same Saturday. One is under contract on a 2019 build in Davenport, the other on a 1994 home in Ocoee. Same lender, similar price. Six weeks later one is paying what they budgeted for homeowners insurance, and the other is scrambling, because their carrier asked for a r

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  • Who Pays What at Closing in Orange, Lake, Osceola & Polk FL,Rebecca Redman-Hamaoui

    Who Pays What at Closing in Orange, Lake, Osceola & Polk FL

    Most buyers and sellers in Central Florida find out who pays for what about seventy-two hours before closing, when the settlement statement lands in their inbox and the bottom-line number is not what they pictured. It does not have to go that way. Florida's closing costs are unusually predictable —

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