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How to reduce appraisal turn times and improve the borrower experience

Housing Wire

This is a critical advancement in the industry as we’ve seen appraisal timelines continually increase. We also evaluate key metrics related to appraiser performance. HW: What are some of the current challenges regarding property tax assessment? JW: The challenges faced by property tax assessment are multi-faceted.

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Working With Your Appraiser Helps Deliver a More Reasonable Value

Simonson Real Estate

The role of the appraiser is to provide objective, impartial, and unbiased opinions about the value of real property—providing assistance to those who own, manage, sell, invest in, and/or lend money on the security of real estate. Again, greater transparency leads to more accuracy.

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5 Appraisal Topics Every Agent Should Know

Empire Appraisal Group

“Good appraisers want as much information as they can get,” said Claire Aufrance, an appraiser and broker from Greensboro, N.C., who sits on the North Carolina Appraisal Board and the Appraisal Institute Board of Directors. How Multiple Offers Factor Into the Appraisal Process.

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Commercial Real Estate Appraisal and Valuation in the Time of Covid-19: What Is the New Normal?

Simonson Real Estate

Despite these radical changes, the business of America carries on, somehow, some way, including commercial real estate appraisal work. How has COVID-19 affected the appraisal process and the values of the various markets and submarkets of commercial real estate? Please join us on Wednesday, July 15th at 2:30 p.m.,

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Is Property Appraisal an Art or a Science?

AmeriMac

It is important to note that an appraisal is not a commodity in itself. Every property is unique for many reasons, the location being one of them. Describing a particular real property and collecting data relative to supply and demand are the appraiser’s responsibilities. Process of Property Appraisal.

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What Is a Reconciled Value?

Cleveland Appraisal Blog

The Sales Comparison approach, as the name implies, compares the property being appraised to other properties that a potential buyer might consider as a substitute for buying the property being appraised. If a lender pushes back, my advice to appraisers is to not cave to the pressure of the lender.

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Appraisals and Valuation Concerns in the Current Market

Simonson Real Estate

Despite these radical changes, the business of America carries on, somehow, some way, including commercial real estate appraisal work. How has COVID-19 affected the appraisal process and the values of the various markets and submarkets of commercial real estate? About the Authors.

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