Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 25, 2024

It is the work of a therapist and their client to carefully untie those knots. Of course, this applies to the work of real estate appraisal as well. Striving to look through the microscope of empirical thought, we must not forget that our subject is more than real property, it is real people.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Appraisers are tasked with protecting the public trust, and yet, I have seen appraisers who knowingly and on an ongoing basis disregard facts and truth to provide reports with values or directions in values that advocate the cause of their client. The future of the valuation profession is not certain to me.

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Cleveland Appraisal Blog

APRIL 11, 2023

With the massive amount of technology available to anyone who can access the internet, you might wonder why bother getting a real property appraisal? Slap a few sales in a report, and make a few guesstimate adjustments to come up with their opinion of a property’s value? Isn’t that all that appraisers do?

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 20, 2022

Real property appraisers have had quite a bit dumped on them in the past couple of years. The uncertainty, turmoil, and government interest in oversight and intervention caused by allegations of racial and ethnic bias in real property appraisal is cause for concern.

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