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Can 3-D printed homes help solve the housing crisis?

Housing Wire

A former Texas A&M cross country and track athlete and Episcopalian minister, Ballard in 2011 co-founded TreeHouse , a retailer to sell environmentally friendly home construction materials. TreeHouse worked with Tesla on an ecofriendly home battery and opened a 25,000-square-foot retail store in Dallas.

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Tips on appraising new construction homes

Appraisal Today

6 Tips for Appraising New Construction Homes. Excerpts: New construction is treated a little differently by lenders, FHA, and the GSEs. When appraising new construction homes, you must take into consideration certain features and attributes that don’t necessarily apply to re-sales. To read more tips, click here. percent from 4.42

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Savvy real estate agents look beyond ChatGPT

Housing Wire

Geoff Hinton, a professor at the University of Toronto, and two students, constructed a viable neural network. It is trained on text data and learns to identify patterns from that data to generate human-like text responses. The latest chatbots, like ChatGPT, are far more advanced than those encountered on most retail websites.

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Engineering Trends to Watch for in 2024

GoForrmz

From autonomous vehicles leveraging machine learning for enhanced decision-making to AI-powered design tools that accelerate product development cycles, the relationship between AI and ML is reshaping how engineers approach problem-solving and solution design.

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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. I was lucky to have never had to use new construction as a comp on an existing home. baths, 14,450 sq.ft.,

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NAR Member Survey on Appraisal Data Collectors

Appraisal Today

They included appraisers, real estate agents, and someone with a week, a month, or online video training. Most of the inspection training we receive as appraisers happens in the field. Sometimes, the “training” was not as thorough as it should have been. That was my training. Inspection training was very good.

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Appraising Historical Homes

Appraisal Today

She designed more than 700 buildings in California during a long and prolific career. In my city of 78,000 population, there are over 10,000 buildings constructed prior to 1930, including many classic Victorians. Many downtown mixed-use buildings (retail and apartments) are in my city. No effect on value. I was surprised.