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Will we start 2022 with all-time lows in housing inventory?

Housing Wire

My biggest concern for housing in the years 2020-2024 was that if the demographic push in demand picks up and total home sales get over 6. Inventory fades in the fall and winter and picks up in summer and spring. Not even 5% mortgage rates in 2018 budged this data line too much.

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Appraiser Has Very Big Problems With Borrower

Appraisal Today

The Sopranos – Lupertazzi’s Rough Up Appraiser To watch, click the video above. Members of the Lupertazzi Crime Family rough up an appraiser who is involved with Tony’s HUD scam. For the sake of simplicity, this article touches on merely three such biases: anchoring bias, selection bias, and confirmation bias.

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How to Find Comps With Few Sales

Appraisal Today

But backing up, I can look at older stuff for the sake of research, but this doesn’t mean I’ll use a super old comp in a report. I wrote an article Why I am an appraiser, in a recent paid monthly newsletter (excerpts below). I read articles online and in the local newspaper, but they didn’t have much information.

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Logan Mohtashami: The 2022 housing forecast

Housing Wire

Even in the extreme conditions of COVID-19, my general premise on housing economics predicted that the two variables with the most influence — demographics and mortgage rates — would hold up the housing market. The 10-year yield and mortgage rates. That range dictated that mortgage rates would roughly stay between 3.5%-4.75%.

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Appraiser Pressure – What To Do?

Appraisal Today

In other words, USPAP doesn’t prohibit a mortgage broker from calling and asking you to develop an appraisal based on a predetermined value, but USPAP does prohibit you from accepting that assignment. Or, do you learn from your parents when growing up? Don’t let these four appraiser liability myths trip you up by Peter Christensen.