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From Forms to Reports: A Look at the UAD Overhaul

Appraisal Buzz

Appraisers will be presented with the data elements needed to report the characteristics of the subject property, and analyze the market, comparables, and other necessary parts of the appraisal process. Only those data and report elements that are important for the scope of work will be presented to the appraiser.

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The hybrid appraisal is here. Who benefits?

Housing Wire

It’s a model in stark contrast to that of inspections for traditional appraisals. It may also be viewed as revolutionary for an industry in which the most significant change to the appraisal process in the past few decades was the advent of appraisal management companies as an intermediary between lenders and appraisers.

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Home Appraisals – What Do They Look For?

D Fritz Appraisals

How Home Appraisers Decide on the Value of Your Property. There are many reasons you may need to know the value of your property and for this, you need a home appraisal. Home appraisers are trained to inspect and measure your property and perform comparisons that result in an accurate valuation for the current housing market.

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A Log Home Valuation

Appraisal Buzz

Currently, the Appraiser Qualifications Board, Course approval Program or Cap, has yet to approve a single class specific to log home valuation. With all the construction of log homes, there needs to be legal and competent appraisals for these homes. The question is how are these homes being appraised? Working Together.

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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. Navigating appraisal challenges in today’s housing market.

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Nothing New Under the Sun: the varied face of appraisal

Walitt Solutions

In July 2019, I spoke to the Collateral Risk Network, a group of chief appraisers, risk managers, management companies, lenders, appraisers, regulators, and legal experts, at the Collateral Matters event in Reston, Virginia. Is this so-called “new” process new at all?

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Reconsideration of Value and Appraisers

Appraisal Today

Estate/trust appraisal liability advice from Peter Christensen. The date of value can be a legal issue and the appraiser should not be the one accepting responsibility for whether the date of value is correct for whatever the use is (such as an estate tax return). How does the appraiser get through such anti-appraiser gyrations?