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Is A Convicted Felon Inspecting Your Home?

Town & Country Residential Appraisals

In recent years, Fannie Mae has been working towards what they call Valuation Modernization. This process involves allowing for the gradual progression of a bifurcated valuation product to make the home valuation process more efficient and accurate. However, this is unsettling on many levels.

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Is A Convicted Felon Inspecting Your Home?

Town & Country Residential Appraisals

In recent years, Fannie Mae has been working towards what they call Valuation Modernization. This process involves allowing for the gradual progression of a bifurcated valuation product to make the home valuation process more efficient and accurate. However, this is unsettling on many levels.

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Nothing New Under the Sun: the varied face of appraisal

Walitt Solutions

My talk focused on Property Inspections, which – to an outsider – might seem to be a straight-forward topic. However, given current changes in the valuation space, nothing is further from the truth: valuation, specifically the collection of data that supports a valuation method, has never been one-size-fits-all.