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Best practices to speed up the appraisal process

Housing Wire

“They give you the ability to scale the amount of appraisals you can do with the current appraiser population that you have, and that’s an important part of all the modernization initiatives that have been going on,” said Scot Rose, chief innovation officer at Class Valuation. Can appraisals keep pace?

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Clear Capital launches appraisal tool to speed photo review

Housing Wire

Appraisal management company Clear Capital , in the latest effort to revamp the appraisal process, hopes to automate property photo reviews to ensure data and photo consistency with its photo review product , ClearPhoto. United Wholesale Mortgage also hopes to make its stamp on the appraisal space.

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Opteon expands its direct-to-consumer appraisal offerings

Housing Wire

Opteon , a Scottsdale-based appraisal, valuation, advisory, and property services provider, has expanded its direct-to-consumer business model nationwide, the company announced on Wednesday. “Our impending technology rollout will enable appraisers to deliver reports straight from the field,” Trice said. .

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Clear Capital launches UDC to support appraisal modernization

Housing Wire

Real estate valuation technology provider Clear Capital on Thursday launched Universal Data Collection (UDC), a product designed to support appraisal modernization. The UDC product provides lenders with tools for scalability, interchangeability and loan management, according to a statement.

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Overcoming 2023’s biggest appraisal challenges

Housing Wire

We saw in 2020 and 2021 some of the most extensive challenges with appraisals due to the volume we experienced as an industry, and we saw nationwide turnaround times extend out to the longest I’ve seen in a decade. The solutions we have seen are focused on addressing either the supply or the demand of appraisals.

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Lenders see appraisal modernization as a top priority

Housing Wire

The main benefit of appraisal modernization, according to the first-quarter sentiment survey , is that it will help shorten the loan origination cycle time. One mid-sized lender echoed the opinion of others that appraisals still take too long. The policy now expires on December 31, 2022.

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White House marks one year of PAVE appraisal bias action plan

Housing Wire

Thursday, March 23 marks the one-year anniversary since the Interagency Task Force on Property Appraisal and Valuation Equity (PAVE) released its action plan to curb instances of bias in the housing appraisal process. Led by U.S. FHFA, along with HUD, [the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the U.S.

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