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Why Agents Should Share Their CMA With The Appraiser

Birmingham Appraisal

Appraiser and Agent Collaboration is a Good Thing The importance of collaboration between real estate agents and appraisers can be a touchy subject. On one hand, the real estate agent’s main goal is to advocate for their client while the appraiser must be an impartial and non-biased third party.

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Can New Construction Sales be Used in an Appraisal of an Older Home?

Birmingham Appraisal

This decline in the number of houses sold in some areas has made it difficult to do appraisals because of the lack of comps. They wanted to know if it was okay to use new construction sales in an appraisal of an older home. Appraisal Process To answer this it’s important to understand the appraisal process.

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Can a New Construction Sale be Used as a Comp for an Older Home?

Birmingham Appraisal

This decline in the number of houses sold in some areas has made it difficult to do appraisals because of the lack of comps. Appraisal Process To answer this it’s important to understand the appraisal process. Appraisal Process To answer this it’s important to understand the appraisal process.

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Appraising Fixer Uppers

Appraisal Today

Appraising Fixer Uppers Excerpts: We’re all familiar with the term “fixer-upper.” For many different reasons, properties can come on the market in less-than-par condition. The degree and cost to cure becomes an issue to buyers and sellers, and a challenge for appraisers. In my MLS “contractor special” is often used.

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Getting Appraisers to Reconsider Value—Do’s & Don’ts

Portland Appraisal Blog

Streaking through the atmosphere is a meteor scientists have dubbed “the appraisal”; it came of out nowhere and impacts your deal at hypersonic velocity, obliterating it in an instance. If so, you’ve probably run through the five stages of grief: 1) Denial—there’s no way that idiot appraiser killed my deal! There must be some mistake.

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The Pitfalls of Outlier Sales in Pricing a Listing

Birmingham Appraisal

The market area that the property is located in can definatley support the price but does the price truely reflect the market value of that specific property or does it reflect what a super motivated buyer with available funds is willing to pay? Related posts: What is bracketing and why should Realtors do it?

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My Top 8 Search Criteria For Finding The Best Comps

Birmingham Appraisal

Agents and appraisers are not that different in their desire to determine an accurate market value for a property. The contract price and appraisal value will need to line up or the buyer will not be able to get a loan to pay for the property.