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Can 3-D printed homes help solve the housing crisis?

Housing Wire

To Ballard, 3D printing technology is evolving to solve a crisis in modern day America and the world: The failure to meet people’s demand for housing. The future will mean housing is abundant, affordable, beautiful, diverse, and exciting,” Ballard said. That frame was such a great invention it dominates to this day.

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The appraisal industry’s hidden hand

Housing Wire

I have always been good with numbers, and I enjoy looking at houses,” he said. But DeZarn was an independent contractor business of one, and he lost his clients in 2008 when the housing market imploded. housing market. You start becoming trained to look in a different way. The evidence is unclear.

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Appraiser Countersues Alleged Discrimination

Appraisal Today

In the past, appraisers were trained by FHA to redline, with lower values in Black neighborhoods. The current owners bought the place in 2014. Everything has been fully modernized. Markets go up and down I’ve been writing for years about how normal it is for markets to go up and down. You may lose a client.

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Chat GPT For Fannie Form Appraisal Reports

Appraisal Today

NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on hybrid appraisals, business tips, UAD info from Freddie, Fannie modernization, non-lender appraisals, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc. = Built in 2014, the six-bedroom estate was designed to resemble an English manor. I learned a lot.