Housing Wire

DECEMBER 23, 2022

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) isn’t doing all that it can to prevent appraisal bias, according to the agency’s Office of Inspector General. It should also alert regulators and licensing authorities when it files complaints against appraisals, the OIG said. million active appraisal records to the U.S.

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2022

A Fannie Mae survey published in mid-May found that mortgage lenders see value in appraisal modernization, specifically in the implementation of non-traditional appraisals and inspection-based appraisal waivers. One mid-sized lender echoed the opinion of others that appraisals still take too long.

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Appraisal Buzz

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Fannie Mae announced on January 19, 2022 that they will be accepting desktop appraisals for eligible loan transactions. The team at Fannie Mae were the first to announce requirements lockstep with their Regulator that desktop appraisals will become a normal part of the appraisal product landscape. Appraisal Labels.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Mortgage giant Fannie Mae extended its relaxed lending and appraisal standards put in place due to COVID-19 into the new year. The flexibilities surrounding verbal verification of employment and appraisals were originally set to expire on Dec. HousingWire reached out to the company, and will update this story with any new developments.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2022

Congress hopes to supplant the appraisal governing body at the center of the industry’s self-regulated framework and make public the trove of appraisal data held by the government-sponsored enterprises. The registry would also track whether an appraiser had completed the minimum required fair housing training.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2023

Today, I’m proud to announce we are developing a rule that will require that financial institutions ensure that their appraisal algorithms are not biased, for example, that they do not produce lower valuations for homes owned by people of color,” Harris said Thursday in a call with reporters.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2021

A San Rafael, California real estate appraiser is being sued for allegedly undervaluing a home by almost 50% because the homeowners are Black. Miller of Miller & Perotti Real Estate Appraisal and AMC Links LLC , an appraisal management company headquartered in Lehi, Utah.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2023

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.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) is the latest stakeholder to examine how racial bias may creep into property valuations. But when the FHFA hunted for examples of racial bias by keyword searching the free-form commentary section in millions of appraisal reports, it found thousands of references to race and ethnicity.

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 18, 2022

The Colorado Housing and Finance Authority (CHFA) has integrated Encompass Investor Connect and AIQ technology from ICE Mortgage Technology , part of Intercontinental Exchange Inc. The post First State Housing Finance Authority Integrates ICE’s Mortgage Loan Delivery Technology appeared first on Appraisal Buzz.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 18, 2020

The Federal Housing Administration has announced an upcoming release of its FHA Catalyst: Electronic Appraisal Delivery module on the FHA Catalyst platform. This solution will allow lenders to electronically submit, track, and manage single-family property appraisals and will become available to FHA-approved lenders on Sept.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2023

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Marcia Fudge “fired up” the crowd during her keynote speech at the 2023 National Association of Real Estate Brokers (NAREB) Annual Conference when she spoke about the recently-announced HUD-NAREB partnership designed to tackle appraisal bias.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Less than one month after launching operations , the private holding group StoicLane – the backers of Interfirst Mortgage – has acquired control of the appraisal management company Lender’s Valuation Services (LVS). The company was founded by mortgage professionals and appraisers that “witnessed the collapse of the mortgage industry.”

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2022

A piece of legislation introduced in the Senate in mid-May could streamline the appraisal process for VA loans. The legislation would modernize the Department of Veteran Affairs ‘ appraisal requirements by allowing desktop appraisals, and in some circumstances, waving appraisals all together.

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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

This is part three of a three part series on appraisal review – Read parts one and two. When interacting with executive managers, I am often posed with the following question “How do you know when you are looking at a “good” appraisal?” The Recent History of Appraisal Revisions. Complexity in Process and Properties.

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Housing Wire

JULY 29, 2021

The interagency task force to combat inequity in appraisals, led by Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge, will be co-chaired by former United Nations ambassador Susan Rice. How to reduce appraisal turn times and improve the borrower experience. Presented by: Voxtur.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 9, 2021

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has announced that JPMorgan Chase has come to an agreement with a Black homeowner who claimed the bank’s mortgage division – relying on a valuation done by an appraiser – valued her home at an amount lower than its actual worth because of her race.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2022

The lack of appraisal data from the government sponsored enterprises took center stage at a Senate Banking Committee hearing Thursday on appraisal bias. Tina Smith, both Democrats, also piled on to support making appraisal data public. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac referred requests to comment to the Federal Housing Finance Agency.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

A liberal think-tank, regulators, the government-sponsored enterprises, the President of the United States, even fintech firms have all called attention to appraisal bias. Earlier this year, President Joseph Biden charged Department of Housing and Urban Development Sec. Here’s how Taylor, via email, responded to our queries.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 14, 2022

The Federal Housing Finance Agency released voluminous plans last week developed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to make the housing market more equitable, in part through changes to the appraisal process. Non-traditional appraisals to the rescue.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The Appraisal Institute , American Society of Appraisers , American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers , and the Massachusetts Board of Real Estate Appraisers announced a concerted effort to combat unconscious bias and discrimination in a release on Friday. Presented by: NAMB.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Jim Amorin, the CEO of the Appraisal Institute , on Thursday announced his resignation from the appraisal trade group. In a statement, the Appraisal Institute said Amorin’s five-year term will end effective Feb. The racial gap itself in appraised values increased by 75% during that period. as Hispanic.

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Appraisal Buzz

DECEMBER 27, 2021

There’s too little supply and too high a demand, a predicament that’s disrupted the housing and appraisal industries. Beginning in January 2020, 7% of purchase transactions had a contract price above the appraisal value. As the appraisal gap widened, the CoreLogic Price Index rose as well, reaching 15% in May of this year.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Appraisals in Black and Latino neighborhoods are more likely to fall short of the contracted sale price, a Freddie Mac study of 12 million appraisals found. The research examined appraisals for home purchases the government sponsored enterprise received from 2015 through the end of 2020.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 6, 2022

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has released its inaugural Mission Report that describes the activities of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (Enterprises) and the Federal Home Loan Banks (FHLBanks) in 2021 to provide greater access to financing for targeted economic development and affordable, equitable and sustainable housing.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Tell someone that you’re a professional fee appraiser and most folks won’t have any idea what that really means. If they’re in the mortgage industry, they’ll likely fall into one of two groups – those who understand the value you bring to the home finance transaction and those who think you fill out forms.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2022

Research detailing overt demographic references in appraisal reports has sparked anger from appraisers, even as they express dismay at the findings. “I Petersburg, Florida-based appraiser Francois “Frank” Gregoire. “I I was extremely upset that any of that stuff would be in an appraisal report.”.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2022

The Department of Housing and Urban Development ’s long-awaited action plan on appraisal bias outlines administrative actions the federal government will quickly take to address mis-valuations. But the report fails to offer a clear plan to release appraisal data from the government sponsored enterprises.

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Appraiserblogs

MARCH 7, 2024

Mass Appraisal tend to exhibit a regressive nature… In the intricate landscape of real estate mortgage financing, the notion of appraisal waivers recently dubbed “Value Acceptance”, by the Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs), has stirred considerable debate. appeared on Appraisers Blogs.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

As federal efforts to rid the appraisal profession of bias move forward, appraisers still have some burning questions. The housing finance and policy community is interested. Hundreds of appraisers and representatives from appraisal management companies showed up. Become a member today. Already a member?

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC) today released an analysis showing that appraisal values are more likely to fall below the contracted sale price of a home in census tracts with a higher share of Black and Latino households, resulting in an appraisal gap. Analysis was conducted on appraisals for the purchase of a single family one-unit home.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 24, 2022

That was the startling and totally hypothetical analogy made, based on the current structure of the Appraisal Foundation , in a scathing report released this week. Until recently … the appraisal industry seems to have escaped the type of regulation and scrutiny faced by other participants in the mortgage market,” the authors wrote.

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Boston Appraisal

OCTOBER 6, 2023

While there is a myriad of financing options available for those looking to purchase or invest in real estate, today we’ll zero in on two distinct choices: hard money loans and traditional financing. Hard money loans, in contrast, are often financed by private investors or smaller lending companies.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

And the appraisal process is no exception. After a summer filled with overwhelming demand and too little appraisal capacity, which increased loan costs and time to close, there is finally light appearing at the end of the tunnel. The appraisal gap for properties in Latino neighborhoods can be even worse, going as high as 9.4%.

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Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 23, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development. This will improve the cost of financing for land developers and home builders and enable more attainable housing supply.” “New New home sales in March were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 693,000, an increase of 8.8% compared with February and up 8.3% Census Bureau and U.S.

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Appraiserblogs

APRIL 11, 2024

In a parallel development, we can now connect the dots that similar talks occurred among White House officials, employees of government-sponsored mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and private vendors to throttle the protected speech of individuals and firms in the mortgage industry engaged specifically for their independence.

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Empire Appraisal Group

MAY 9, 2024

New Requirements Aim to Reduce Appraisal Bias The new Reconsideration of Value policy requires lenders to provide a pathway for borrowers to request reviews of home appraisal valuations. Also, underwriters should be trained to identify and remedy appraisal deficiencies, including racial and ethnic bias.

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