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A look behind this year’s Tech100 winners

Housing Wire

In eOriginal’s 2020 Tech100 nomination, the company boasted about the efficiency their ClosingCenter product brought to mortgage lending clients; Fairway achieved 80% faster mortgage acceptance by secondary market investors and also realized a 90% reduction in interest expenses to warehouse lenders for mortgages closed using ClosingCenter.

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USPAP Myths for Appraisers

Appraisal Today

I suppose it is because most appraisals are done (now) for residential lending purposes. Get licensed or certified (24%) Grow my business (23%) “As the lending side of the commercial appraisal business has declined, we are actively networking to increase our private party work for CPAs, lawyers, and estate planning professionals.”

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What is Your Appraiser Level? Why Does It Make a Difference?

Appraisal Today

AMCs had taken over the mortgage-lending work. Modern and contemporary styles still have a stronghold on new construction, but as we found, they have spawned many offshoots, each of which has bloomed into a distinct aesthetic in its own right. Goes way beyond the traditional architectural styles.

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NAR Appraisal Survey 2022

Appraisal Today

. “Owning this house is a bit like being a celebrity in very weird, eclectic circles,” he said in a recent interview, noting how architecture students would regularly visit to study the home’s sculptural construction. The residence is comprised of two steel-framed towers, connected via a wooden bridge.

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Desktop Appraisals: Who, When, and Why

Appraisal Today

NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on non-lender appraisals, using new construction comps for existing homes, master planned communities, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc. But if for lending, it might be rejected on review by GSE computers or humans. baths, 14,450 sq.ft.,

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OK to average adjusted comps on appraisals?

Appraisal Today

”… Question 2: does the lending industry owe the appraiser a living? Next is, “Does the real estate mortgage lending industry owe the real estate appraiser a living?” Highlighted by a passive solar design, these distinctive homes are all about environmental conservation and sustainable architecture.

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What Appraisers Wish Real Estate Agents Understood

Appraisal Today

Architectural Digest rounded up some of the most stunning examples of remote homes, from small villages set atop mountains to islands with just one home on them. In my city, a commercial building constructed of shipping containers was proposed for a long-vacant site at the primary access to the city’s historic shopping street.