Housing Wire
MAY 26, 2023
Secret Service , notified the title industry of a rise in what is known as vacant lot fraud, or seller impersonation fraud. “We We started to hear a lot about seller impersonation fraud early on in the year,” Tyler Adams, the CEO of CertifID, said. “We Oftentimes this leads to the discovery of vacant lots. million, according to NAR.
Appraisal Buzz
MARCH 25, 2024
Of course, this applies to the work of real estate appraisal as well. The transaction is a complex interplay between buyer and seller. 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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Cleveland Appraisal Blog
APRIL 21, 2022
Could being located next to a property that is an eye-sore cause a loss in market value to your home? Part of our work as appraisers is to consider whether situations like this are influencing the market value of the home we are appraising. Of course, that’s not the same as market value.
Eppraisal
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
Owning raw land has real potential along with its share of pitfalls. Whether you decide to hold it and sell when real property values climb or -- alternatively -- develop the lot to convey at a higher price, you are subject to forces of market, timing and competition.
McKissock
APRIL 30, 2021
Sales due to a job relocation, estate settlement, foreclosure, or divorce may sell for less than the property’s market value. Remember, in general, market value is defined as the most probable price a property should bring in a competitive and open market. Non-arm’s length sale.
McKissock
AUGUST 13, 2021
For a typical “as-is” Market Value assignment with a straightforward contract with no contingencies or conditions, there is probably nothing that an appraiser actually needs to see. If a property appraises for $200,000 for a refinance, then it is still a $200,000 property for a sale transaction.
Empire Appraisal Group
JULY 1, 2021
It’s also the appraiser’s job to develop an opinion on a home’s fair market value, and just because the buyer and seller have agreed on a price doesn’t mean that’s the true value of the property, said Francois Gregoire, broker, appraiser, instructor, and president of Gregoire & Gregoire Inc.,
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