An Online Notary & Mortgage Closing Service

Notarize is a public platform allowing any person or business to get their documents legally notarized online.   Notarize is also the first company to enable an entirely online mortgage closing process. Notarize has focused efforts around the real estate industry with Notarize for Mortgage and Notarize for Title Agents, enabling real estate professionals to execute a …

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Buyers Turn to Crowdfunding to Afford a Home

More aspiring home buyers are increasingly turning to crowdfunding to drum up money for a down payment. Several new crowdfunding platforms have debuted, such as HomeFundMe and Feather the Nest, to help potential home buyers raise funds to purchase a home or make home repairs. Online registries like HoneyFund include the option of gifting a …

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These 95 Apartments Promised Affordable Rent in San Francisco. Then 6,580 People Applied.

SAN FRANCISCO — For $1,200 a month, Patricia Torres and her family were renting a bedroom, a share of time in the bathroom, one vegetable drawer and one shelf in the fridge, and two cupboards over the stove. They rented not so much a home as a fraction of one. Karen Calderon had even less: a …

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Newport Beach couple charged with stealing $5.9 million in real estate fraud scheme

A Newport Beach couple were charged Wednesday with multiple felonies after authorities alleged they stole more than $5.9 million in a real estate fraud scheme and laundered the money to purchase a luxury car and invest in a winery. Ronald Cedric Touchard, 59, faces 54 counts of money laundering, three counts of grand theft and …

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Rental house hoax

Three bedrooms, one bathroom, newly remodeled and it’s renting for just $600 a month. Sound too good to be true? It is. And the people who actually live in this Pensacola, FL home are furious. Rhonda Trafford first learned about the Craigslist post on Monday, after a woman knocked on her front door inquiring about …

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The most and least expensive places to live in America

The Bureau of Economic Analysis recently released data on personal income and the cost of living in 2016 for metropolitan and nonmetropolitan parts of states, including the relative cost of living in different parts of the country. Regional price parity is an index that sets the national average cost of goods and services at 100, with a …

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Fannie Mae to sell 11,000 non-performing loans

Fannie Mae will sell 11,000 in non-performing loans, 700 of which are from its thirteenth Community Impact Pool, a small pool for marginalized or small investors. Community Impact Pools are smaller loan pools that are geographically-focused and marketed toward non-profits, minority and women-owned businesses, and smaller investors. These Community Impact Pool loans are located in New Jersey, …

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Flip loans command juicy interest rates of 8% to 12% but come with risks

Borrowers of residential transitional loans—or flip loans, as they are better known—use the money to buy a property, renovate it and then try to quickly resell at a profit. They have become a lucrative and growing niche of finance in recent years. Nomura Holdings Inc. estimates that flippers will borrow some $15 billion this year, …

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