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PunchList USA names chief product and data officer 

Housing Wire

PunchListUSA , a real estate technology platform digitizing home inspection data, has named Stefan Pampulov as its chief product and data officer. Pampulov will be responsible for the development of PunchListUSA’s proprietary products, data infrastructure, home lifecycle services, and predictive pricing models, according to the firm.

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Appraisal Inspection Vs. Home Inspection: Your Role as an Appraiser

McKissock

Appraisers often balk at assignments that require a more detailed inspection of the subject property (e.g., ” Do you believe you are acting as a home inspector when you complete a property inspection as part of an FHA assignment? Appraisers perform similar inspections, to one degree or another, in most appraisal assignments.

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Opinion: tools for landlords to help low-income tenants

Housing Wire

Some landlords don’t accept vouchers In fact, a 2018 Urban Institute study found more than 70% of landlords in Fort Worth and Los Angeles did not accept vouchers. The bill would also reduce the burden of inspections by enabling landlords to meet voucher inspection requirements for their units if they were inspected in the past year.

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Fannie Mae Changes 2018

Robinson Appraisal Group

The form is broken down into categories of time to include comparable settled sales in the past 90 days, the prior 4 – 6 months and the previous 7 – 12 months from the date of inspection. The post Fannie Mae Changes 2018 appeared first on The Robinson Appraisal Group, LLC.

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California couple sues appraiser for race discrimination

Housing Wire

They refinanced their mortgage in 2018 and 2019, and sought to do so again in 2020. This friend, “placed some of her own family photos, depicting her white family” around the house “prior to the inspection.”. According to the lawsuit, Tate-Austin, and her husband Austin bought a house in Marin County for $550,000 in 2016.

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Clear Capital launches appraisal tool to speed photo review

Housing Wire

Clear Capital’s data science team developed the product and built it into the already existing platform, a review system that automates collateral underwriting in compliance with internal credit policies and government-sponsored enterprise guidelines. According to a recently published study by the U.S.

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Sierra Pacific to use CoreLogic’s appraisal platform

Housing Wire

“We are excited to work with innovative lenders like Sierra Pacific Mortgage to find ways to take time, touch and cost out of their collateral underwriting workflows,” said Sage Nichols, CoreLogic executive of client and business development. Are borrower-assisted inspections here to stay? to two loan files per day. .

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