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Proposed Design of the URAR

Appraiserblogs

Here’s the link to the ‘slide show’ the GSE’s have produced showing proposed design of the future, revised, URAR appraisal form. In my initial very quick observation of the proposed changes, there is FAR MORE INFO REQUESTED about the subject and comparable sales than the ‘current’ 2005 URAR form has on it.

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SoCal indy brokerage DPP Real Estate joins Compass

Housing Wire

The Southern California brokerage was founded in 2005 by George Penner and Mike Deasy, who will both remain with the firm after it joins the Robert Reffkin -helmed firm. Steve Murray, partner at RTC Consulting in Colorado, represented DPP in the transaction.

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The Appraisal World is changing, as is UAD and the URAR

Appraisal Buzz

The mortgage appraisal forms we use today were designed in 2005 using technology and mortgage processes in place at the time. Consider all the technological advances since 2005: Apple released the iPhone, the first touchscreen smartphone Social networking. What exactly does this mean?

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Custom Home Building Share Declines Slightly

Eyes on Housing

percent recorded in 2021 and the lowest the annual custom home share has been since the 2005 re-design of the SOC. According to data from the Census Bureau’s Survey of Construction (SOC), custom homes accounted for 17.6 percent of new single-family homes started—down slightly from the 17.8 Read More ›

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Custom Home Building Share Declines

Eyes on Housing

percent of all single-family homes started in 2020—the lowest the annual custom home share has been since the 2005 re-design of the SOC. According to data from the Census Bureau’s Survey of Construction (SOC), the custom home share decreased to 17.8 Read More ›

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Lower mortgage rates fueling existing home sales

Housing Wire

Because housing data and all economics are so violent lately, we created the weekly Housing Market Tracker , which is designed to look forward, not backward. I’ve always believed we would never see the forced selling we saw from 2005-2008, which was the worst part of the housing bubble crash years. million in February.

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2020 HW Vanguard: Robert D’Urbano

Housing Wire

Robert D’Urbano joined Freedom Mortgage in 2005 and guides the development of system improvements and assuring operational readiness of all corporate systems. D’Urbano and his team have overseen the design, development and delivery of new technology solutions that have enabled Freedom Mortgage to double the originations volume year over year.