Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 10, 2021

MReport recently had the chance to chat with Matt Woodhouse of ServiceLink about the company’s ServiceLink’s State of Homebuying Report analyzing trends in the market and the impact of technology on today’s buyer. The post Expert Insights: Matt Woodhouse, Managing Director of Valuations, ServiceLink appeared first on theMReport.com.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Though prospective buyers revealed slight wariness in September, Fannie Mae reported buyer morale gained 6% in October, with 60% of respondents saying it is a good time to buy a home while those who believe it is a bad time fell to 35%. Low mortgage rates fuel the demand for valuation and settlement services.

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Appraisal Buzz

MAY 6, 2024

Areas more exposed to such risk are likely to see increased volatility in valuations.” However, it remains to be seen how these challenges will be reflected in appraisal reports and buyer preferences, with areas more exposed to climate and natural disaster risks potentially seeing increased volatility in valuations.

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Appraisal Hub

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Whether you’re a homeowner, a prospective buyer, or a real estate professional, understanding the true value of a property is crucial. As a subject expert in property valuation and appraisal services in Toronto, I want to guide you through the importance of professional real estate appraisal and how it can benefit you.

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McKissock

JULY 10, 2022

When estimating a property’s investment value, there are a variety of real estate valuation methods you can use. Keep in mind that there is no right or wrong valuation method. With that in mind, let’s look at five valuation methods used in the marketplace and discuss the pros and cons of each. Valuation methods.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2024

RealReports is a real estate platform that gathers property data — including permits, climate risk, rental rates, flood insurance costs, internet providers and speeds, crime statistics, solar potential, liens, zoning details, remodel potential and valuation — in one place.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2024

Similarly, data-driven marketing can be more cost effective, helping you focus your marketing budget on homeowners who are most likely to sell, and on buyers who are actively looking for their next home. By leveraging large datasets, these tools offer precise, data-driven valuations and insightful analysis. Need more examples?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2023

From a data lens, transactions can be broken out into three different stages: Valuation , Due Diligence , and Contract. Valuation – The valuation stage can also be considered the preliminary due diligence stage. Once an offer is accepted, the full due diligence stage commences.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Plunk’s AI-powered home analytics platform offers real-time insights into home valuation , risk assessment, and remodeling possibilities. Combined, this partnership could spur better decision-making for investors and home buyers as well as create a more efficient workflow for agents, the statement said.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

RTC Consulting has continued to see the same level of valuation work in the past 12 months as we saw in each of the proceeding years. While not all these valuations are for the purpose of a merger or acquisition, many are. In fact, the level of in-market combinations has not declined much at all.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2023

Opteon , a Scottsdale-based appraisal, valuation, advisory, and property services provider, has expanded its direct-to-consumer business model nationwide, the company announced on Wednesday. In 2021, Opteon acquired the appraisal firm The William Fall Group , along with Valuation Partners and Summit Valuation Solutions.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2024

They also testified to the importance and value of the MLS as a core service that agents provide to sellers and buyers. Issues with the damage award The damage award was calculated by imputing that the entire “3%” was awarded to buyer agents by listing agents for the MLS regions in Missouri for the seven years of the class period.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2023

We have been the category leader in buyer nurture for many years now and we have been widely viewed by our customers as the best way to keep clients in an ecosystem that they have visibility and control over, but that was mainly around buyers. “It was a long time coming,” Andrew Flachner , RealScout’s co-founder and president, said. “We

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2022

Seattle, Washington-based real estate valuation company True Footage announced the acquisition of Spark for Appraisers , an appraisal technology firm. Presented by: Class Valuation. Its founder and CEO Brian Ahrens is now True Footage’s head of valuations.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

The company integrates with an existing brokerage website to provide homeowners with three valuations along with insight into the number of real estate buyer leads actively searching for a property just like theirs. By providing real estate brokers with real-time buyer data, they’re able to stand out against the competition.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 12, 2023

When we go through the brokerage valuation process, the product is Fair Market Value (FMV). When we see transactions that are executed at a price that is materially different than FMV, it is usually because the deal terms are imbalanced, favoring either the buyer or the seller. At a 3x multiple, FMV would be $600,000.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 16, 2022

Mortgage Capital Trading (MCT), a mortgage hedge advisory and secondary marketing software firm, has introduced a new technology for mortgage servicing rights (MSR) buyers to produce more granular pricing for mortgage servicing. The feature leverages an application programming interface (API) to connect MSRlive!,

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Generative artificial intellegence, such as ChatGPT, is changing everything—a statement that comes as little surprise to anyone these days, and least of all to the many real estate agents whose markets are being saturated by artificial intelligence (AI)-empowered buyers. Keep Up AI is making buyers smarter.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 24, 2022

Tomo says its appraisal coverage product protects home buyers from having to bring more cash to the close when appraisals come in low, with the same APR, cash-to-close and monthly payment guaranteed. On Wednesday, the firm launched Tomo Appraisal Coverage. Tomo, however, is not immune to the volatility in the markets.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Founded in 2017, the proptech purchases a home for a potential buyer and then rents it back to them for up to three years. Divvy’s last known funding occurred in August 2021 – a $200 million Series D funding led by Tiger Global Management and Caffeinated Capital , which nearly quadrupled its valuation to $2 billion valuation at the time.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The marketplace allows buyers to bid regardless of their approval status and sellers receive automated live pricing from every buyer on the platform. Today, it has evolved to help buyers and sellers who are grappling with limited liquidity and slow turn times for pricing. BAM was created to help sellers during the pandemic.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2023

One buyer commented: “We wired in full payment for a home that was supposed to close last week. As of Wednesday morning, the websites for DataTrace and ACI , a valuation technology subsidiary, remained offline. No new updates or filings have been shared since last Friday.

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Appraiserblogs

JANUARY 8, 2024

Appraisal waivers, hybrid appraisals, automated valuation models, all based on the last 13 years of data collection by an entity I will call Goliath has created a paradoxical inversion of. Related Posts: Seller Filed a Racial Bias Complaint Against Me So what’s caused the sudden loss of income?

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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Divorce work is the most common, but attorneys also need valuation expertise for estate valuations, business disputes, tax litigation, bankruptcy proceedings, and expert witnesses (a per hour fee). It can be presented in a way that real estate agents can use in their MLS listings and packets they are preparing for buyers.

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Clear Capital

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Data integration and analysis company Cherre announced that it’s partnering with national real estate valuation technology company Clear Capital to gain a new source of data. Valuation data is critical to smarter deal identification, particularly in times of rapid change and volatility. At the same time… READ FULL ARTICLE.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Another issue with appraiser competency could be appraisers’ apparent lack of familiarity with valuation tools. Survey respondents were most comfortable with desktop appraisals and least comfortable with automated valuation models (AVMs). “We had an Appraiser go MIA and almost cost my buyer a deal.”.

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Housing Wire

JULY 17, 2023

ICE and Black Knight also amended their deal terms to reduce the valuation of Black Knight to $11.8 billion, about 11% lower than the valuation when the agreement was announced last year. In connection with the announcement, the FTC filed a joint motion with ICE and BKI to postpone the trial to August 14-16.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2024

The more educated they are, the more information they share with buyers and sellers, the better, and we are a business partner with them from that perspective. It also provides immense value to appraisers as they use comprehensive, accurate data to ensure timely and accurate valuations. Our data sets continue to get richer.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

Drive leads to home valuation landing pages It’s the 21st century. To drive sellers to your website, create custom landing pages that offer free home valuations and describe the services and expertise you provide to home sellers. Then, drive traffic to your home valuation page using social media or targeted advertising.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

Always include your contact information and a call to action, such as an offer for a free home valuation. There are still plenty of buyers interested in this area. In fact, we had (number) offers, which means there are still ready, willing, and qualified buyers eager to make an offer! Great news! Your neighborhood is hot!

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Industry players who spoke with HousingWire agree that the level of repurchase demands has increased this year and that is having an impact on some buyers and sellers of MSRs. There is a lot of money chasing MSRs,” said Mike Carnes, managing director of the MSR valuation group at Mortgage Industry Advisory Corp (MIAC).

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Simonson Real Estate

JULY 22, 2021

Most buyers will not pay for these excess costs. During this process, fewer buyers are available to acquire the property and this begins to change the supply and demand equilibrium. The post Valuation – How Much is My Property Really Worth? This affects the ability to obtain financing and can result in changing values.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 8, 2022

we’re helping potential buyers make more informed decisions, while empowering agents and sellers to market their properties more effectively, and supporting a modern valuation process for both appraisers and lenders,” said Jeff Allen, president of CubiCasa. said Allen. caught up,” he said.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Presently, the demand for existing homes outpaces the available supply, raising potential concerns for both sellers and buyers. Financial risk mitigation involves diligence, data analytics, and the expertise of VRM’s licensed real estate professionals , leveraging over 40 years of valuation data through its affiliate, PCV-Murcor.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Other opportunities ICE acknowledged include developing innovative analytics that help lenders connect with potential buyers in historically underserved markets and identify minority bias in the home valuation process.

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Miller Samuel

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

And this was a perfect post: so zillow let a robot buy up thousands of properties, outbidding real buyers and artificially inflating the market, and now will be laying off a full quarter of its workforce and selling off the properties to rental corps like BlackRock at vastly discounted prices. that right? Its quite diabolical.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2023

An appraisal gap is the difference between what a buyer agreed to pay for a home in a purchase contract and what an appraiser concludes as the fair market value of the property. Well, a cure for appraisal gap anxiety has appeared on the scene. Fannie Mae recently announced the Value Acceptance + Property Data solution.

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