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A View on Risk: Desktop Appraisals

Appraisal Buzz

Let’s take some time to reintroduce Desktop Appraisals and explore the risks that are presented when a Desktop Appraisal is requested of an appraiser as part of the mortgage application process. Prior to 2020, the most common appraisal label in the mortgage origination ecosystem was the Full Appraisal. Appraisal Labels.

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Why Appraisal Workfiles Are Important

Appraisal Today

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How to Find Comps With Few Sales

Appraisal Today

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Reconsideration of Value and Appraisers

Appraisal Today

Excerpts: Suggested protocols for responding to Reconsideration of Value requests. Click here to listen to Tim Andersen, MAI’s podcast, “Reconsiderations of Value: Satan’s Own Seed, Right?” What Is a Reconciled Value? Excerpts: What does the appraiser do with the three different values that may be developed?

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Opinion: The path to modernizing the appraisal process

Housing Wire

These and other steps are sorely needed to bring the appraisal process in line with advances to digitize mortgages, utilizing technology to combat inconsistencies that continue to beleaguer the profession, and reduce closing slowdowns often caused by appraisal capacity issues. Reconsideration of Value (ROV) process.

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NAN’s Steve Sussman on the company’s growth strategy

Housing Wire

We sat down with Steve Sussman, NAN’s chief business development officer, to find out how the company is growing so fast and what they see for the future. SW: The mortgage industry saw huge origination volume over the last two years. SW: We hear a lot these days about appraisal modernization.