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Tips for Increasing Your Home’s Value Without Spending a Fortune

Cleveland Appraisal Blog

Welcome to Emily Miller , who wrote this piece for the Cleveland Appraisal Blog. Generally speaking, real estate is one of the most secure investments you can make, and bar any situations like the crash in 2008, you are pretty much guaranteed a constant increase in value and desirability. What Home Appraisers Look For.

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What New Appraisal Specialty Do You Wish to Break Into?

McKissock

Last month we asked our appraisal community, “What new appraisal specialty or niche would you like to break into?” What new appraisal specialty or niche would you like to break into? Appraisers need to be up to speed more so than in the crash of 2008 when values fell. Want to participate? Review appraisal (23%).

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NAR Member Survey on Appraisal Data Collectors

Appraisal Today

Broker-Associates and Appraisal Licensees accounted for 13% and two percent, respectively, while the remaining two percent reported holding other types of real estate licenses. To read more, click here My comments: Now we know what NAR members think about it. What they were doing about inspectors had a wide range.

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Agents, Are You Pricing For Today’s Market or Yesterday’s?

Birmingham Appraisal

In Real Estate It’s All About What’s Happening Now. It’s easy to be so pumped about what’s been happening that we miss out on what is currently going on. This can happen in the real estate market as well. Are you analyzing what is happening now or 6 months ago?

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Too many appraisers?

Appraisal Today

Easy — we do what we have always done, each time. In past issues of the Analogue Blog, we have considered the “five forces of friction” on the advancement of appraisal. This blog considers how each friction will respond to this “excess” of appraisers. What was your business like before the pandemic? Too many appraisers?

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NAR: Appraisal License Equivalency Credit for RE Agents?

Appraisal Today

In a July 9, 2015, Concept Paper – Alternate Track to the Experience Requirements in the Real Property Appraiser Qualification Criteria, the AQB asked: “Are there practical alternatives for some (or all) of the appraisal experience requirements to include non-appraisal experience?”. Appraisers are real estate reporters.

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Appraiser Countersues Alleged Discrimination

Appraisal Today

Appraiser Countersues Black Plaintiffs Who Alleged Discrimination by Isaac Peck, Publisher WorkingRE There are now a number of lawsuits facing appraisers where the primary allegation is racial discrimination. Tate-Austin v. Janette Miller, filed in California in Dec. 2021, was one of the first (and perhaps the most publicized). Shane Lanham et al.