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Zurple Review: Features, pricing & alternatives

Housing Wire

When a potential buyer or seller lead searches for homes or a home valuation on Google, they are driven to your site by ads created and managed by Zurple’s advertising experts. You’ll get alerts about the hottest leads that include personalized talking points, properties of interest, and housing market data to reference.

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How PCV Murcor provides high level of customer service

Housing Wire

PCV Murcor is one of the nation’s leading valuation management companies. The company provides appraisal management services to lenders, investment firms, community banks, servicers and anyone who needs a real estate valuation. Despite uncertain economic times, the housing market experienced a surge during the pandemic.

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Sticky Prices

Appraisal Buzz

This article is written by Brent Bowen – author, CE instructor, and Chief Appraiser at Texas Valuation Professionals, Inc. His training webinar on Market Indexing for Appraisers: How to Master Market Condition Adjustments is coming up next Thursday, October 3rd. Click here to register.

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The Difference Between Pricing a Property and Appraising It

Cleveland Appraisal Blog

In recent years, on several occasions, I have been hired to appraise a property after a valuation service was provided for my client by another real estate professional. The opposing side in one of the cases required that a new valuation be completed by a state-certified appraiser. But then they had to hire me to perform an appraisal.

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The appraisal industry’s hidden hand

Housing Wire

He started contracting with home mortgage lenders to appraise the value of the property tied to a loan. “It I have always been good with numbers, and I enjoy looking at houses,” he said. But DeZarn was an independent contractor business of one, and he lost his clients in 2008 when the housing market imploded.

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From Forms to Reports: A Look at the UAD Overhaul

Appraisal Buzz

Using the form structure, GSEs have been ingesting these eclectic abbreviations to develop a large database of residential valuation. Reports in the new standard, will be dynamic, expanding and contracting, based on the scope of work for that appraisal assignment. If typewriters are no more, it is time for forms to be retired as well.

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What It Takes to Be An Expert Appraisal Witness in An Eminent Domain Case

Cleveland Appraisal Blog

In high-stakes eminent domain cases, where valuation opinions diverge to a significant degree, an appraiser must be prepared to zealously defend the opinion being given under what can sometimes be grueling cross-examination by the other side’s lawyer. USPAP and the Contract – Tim Andersen, The Appraiser’s Advocate Podcast.

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