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How to Find Comps With Few Sales

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acre lot, built in 2007 The chateau was listed in 2014 for $12.8 Take Note of GSE Requirements To read more, Click Here My comment: If you do residential lending appraisals, read this article! But the waterfront building’s more-recent design is rooted in a nautical past. Excerpts: 8 bedrooms, 7.5+ baths, 12,770 sq.ft.,

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VA Approves Desktops and Exterior-Only Appraisals

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Excerpts: Lending was not very prudent prior to the crash of 2008 as suggested by the trend in the median credit score (FICO), a measure for credit worthiness; for newly originated first-time purchase mortgages the median FICO score was 686 in Q1 2006 versus 740 in Q4 2020. The average contract interest rate for 5/1 ARMs decreased to 4.55

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Appraiser Salaries

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The sellers custom built the home between 2007 and 2009, using high-end materials and finishes, including a wall of windows and 26-foot-high ceilings in the great room. It’s designed to mimic a tree growing with the branches and the roots down on the bottom, with the branches reaching up,” Steeves-Haith explains. Take the elevator.

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Superadequacy Adjustments for Appraisals

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Have you ever driven closer and closer to your subject and noticed that the homes are much smaller or have standard designs? Licensees have fallen from about 20,000 in 2006-2007 to under 9,000 now. So is a network of contacts in all areas of the real estate industry, not just the lending community. percent from 7.07

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FHA: Cosmetic vs. MPR Repairs

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In 2007, he started appraising conservation easements, which are specified areas of land earmarked for environmental conservation. Some appraisers feel that lenders should not provide them with the purchase and sale contract. Then that contract does not serve to color, cloud, or otherwise bias a value opinion. percent from 6.57

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Appraisers and Property Data Collectors

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Myth #2: Data collectors are going to replace appraisers There’s a lot of buzz right now about PDC possibly replacing traditional property appraisal, but the intent of this service is to fill a gap in the lending process. The unique design of the house is its most impressive feature,” says listing agent Emma Morris, of Red Oak Realty.

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CAN HOUSING SHORTAGE CATCH UP TO EASTSIDE DEMAND?

Will Springer Realtor

This looks a lot like the housing boom that we saw prior to the 2007–09 financial crisis.” That percentage was last seen in September 2007 – yes, at the start of the housing crisis (as the chart shows). That was within the 28% ceiling considered affordable by common lending standards. The potent combo of rising U.S.