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A loan officer’s ultimate guide to appraisal modernization

Housing Wire

Last year, Freddie Mac launched another solution that allows a trained property data collector to visit the home and gather images, measurements and property characteristics. A trained and vetted third party can perform the data collection. The original appraisal waiver solutions were launched in August 2017.

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FHFA’s RFI on appraisals is a critical inflection point

Housing Wire

One significant factor behind the lack of evolution in the appraisal industry is that the American housing market has grown at a much higher rate than the pool of licensed professionals that are legally certified to appraise residential real estate. Real estate agents in particular understand local properties extremely well.

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ClearCast Podcast E19 — Ribbon Co-Founder & CEO Shaival Shah

Clear Capital

Clear cCapital just announced that we have acquired a Finnish proptech startup called CubiCasa and CubiCasa is incredibly exciting technology that enables anyone with a smartphone and no training to do a 10-minute walkthrough a property and get a fully detailed, accurate floorplan with gross living area. So, we back that number. Kenon Chen.

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