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The Appraiser’s Guide to Evaluating Home Value Before You Buy

Birmingham Appraisal

Strategies for Evaluating Home Value: What Buyers Need to Know When it comes to purchasing a home, understanding the various factors that affect its value is important. Evaluating home value is essential in this regard. Keep an eye on the neighborhood’s growth trends and planned developments.

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Clear Capital and BeSmartee Partner to Bring Home Value Verification Solution to Mortgage Lenders

Clear Capital

Clear Capital’s ClearAVM , a nationwide automated valuation model (AVM) that provides accurate estimates of market value for millions of properties, has been integrated with BeSmartee’s Mortgage POS and HELOC product to provide users with value verification during the initial application and/or underwriting process on mortgage and home equity loans.

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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. They had hired the former real estate professional to value their property for the purpose of a divorce. All three are market-based approaches.

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How to support credible valuations for shared equity programs

Clear Capital

Shared equity programs are growing across the country, and lenders and appraisers should understand the nuances of these programs to ensure accurate valuations. A few things to watch out for: The contract price may be considerably below fair market value and should not influence the appraised value. What is shared equity?

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Savvy real estate agents look beyond ChatGPT

Housing Wire

The history of AI and where it is going The Turing Test was developed by Alan Turing in 1950. A functioning neural network was viewed as the pathway to develop AI capable of learning anything a human could, and perhaps becoming more intelligent than humans. It re-emerged in the AI scene in October 2012. What is next?

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Need a Property Tax Appeal?

D Fritz Appraisals

Every year, BC Assessment creates property tax assessments for over 2 million homes in BC. These assessments provide a valuation of each property as of July 1 st in the previous year (So 2023 tax assessments are based on the value of homes on July 1 st, 2022). Size of home in square feet. Age of home.

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Home Appraisals – What Do They Look For?

D Fritz Appraisals

There are many reasons you may need to know the value of your property and for this, you need a home appraisal. Home appraisers are trained to inspect and measure your property and perform comparisons that result in an accurate valuation for the current housing market. Valuation for insurance claims.

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