Real Estate Services Firm Plans to Simplify Home Buying - 2004-01-20
The steps taken for selling or buying a house hasn't changed much over the years until now.

The firm will partner with an on-site appraiser, who will provide a full mortgage appraisal to sellers at the time of listing, as well as a certified home inspector and a bonded exterminator who will inspect the property before it is placed on the market.
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Mortgage brokers must disclose kickbacks - 2004-01-20
Mortgage brokers will be required to disclose kickbacks received from lenders they recommend to customers under legislation which will come into effect this year.

A decision by mortgage broker Mortgage Choice to drop the Commonwealth Bank from its list of lenders - because the bank refused to pay a $200,000 sponsorship for a national conference - has prompted consumer groups to call for a ban on so-called "soft dollar commissions".
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