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Fannie Mae: Appraisals are no longer the default option

Housing Wire

Fannie Mae updated its Selling Guide on Wednesday to include more options for property valuations, saying that they are “moving away from implying that an appraisal is a default requirement.” Those options include value acceptance (formerly appraisal waivers), value acceptance plus property data and hybrid appraisals. “We

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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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3 Things An Appraisal Should Tell You That You May Not Know

Cleveland Appraisal Blog

Slap a few sales in a report, and make a few guesstimate adjustments to come up with their opinion of a property’s value? The research and analysis that a well-trained professional appraiser can provide you with will include important information above and beyond their opinion of the market value of the property they are appraising.

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Hybrid Appraisals and the Associated Risks

Boston Appraisal

Also known as bifurcated appraisals, hybrid appraisals employ a more streamlined appraisal approach that involves separating the valuation aspect of an assessment from the property inspection portion. Finally, the appraiser is tasked with completing the valuation, which they typically do by utilizing data from MLS and other public records.

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Savvy real estate agents look beyond ChatGPT

Housing Wire

It is trained on text data and learns to identify patterns from that data to generate human-like text responses. McKinsey reports that the real estate industry will see a productivity gain of $110 billion to $180 billion, primarily in marketing and sales. ChatGPT uses neural networks to learn from experience.

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Real Estate Owned Appraisals: The Ultimate Guide

AmeriMac

Definition and Purpose of REO Appraisals REO appraisals play a crucial role in establishing the market value of homes, especially during the foreclosure process. Mortgage lenders rely on these appraisals to determine the value of fundamental estate-owned properties, directly impacting loan amounts for refinancing.

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How to enhance home equity loan underwriting using an AVM

Clear Capital

In this second part, we’ll discuss how to meet interagency guidelines for property valuation while expediting underwriting by using ClearAVM + Property Condition Inspection (PCI). ClearAVM + PCI: A holistic view of a property ClearAVM is our industry-leading, lending-grade automated valuation model (AVM).