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We have had our home on the market for three months, and finally received an offer last week. The price that the buyer is offering is fine with us, but the contract includes a “loan contingency” ...

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It’s a sign of the times when America’s largest lender, Rocket Mortgage, starts offering bridge financing, a somewhat complicated niche loan product. Why now? Well, the housing market is on ice with ...

Real estate markets across the U.S. have been plagued with unusually low inventory, spurring fierce competition among buyers. January—ordinarily a slower month for real estate transactions—was the ...

Many home sales are made “contingent” on one or multiple events coming to pass. Buyers caught up in contingent sales sometimes miss out on opportunities, however. This is because they need to quickly ...