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FHFA takes a swing at racial bias in appraisal

Housing Wire

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) is the latest stakeholder to examine how racial bias may creep into property valuations. But when the FHFA hunted for examples of racial bias by keyword searching the free-form commentary section in millions of appraisal reports, it found thousands of references to race and ethnicity.

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PAVE Task Force Releases Recommendations to Promote Valuation Equity

McKissock

On March 23, 2022, the Interagency Task Force on Property Appraisal and Valuation Equity (PAVE) released a report entitled “Action Plan to Advance Property Appraisal and Valuation Equity.” Pages 5 and 6 of the report set forth 21 recommendations, termed “Agency Actions to Advance Valuation Equity.” Stay tuned.

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From Forms to Reports: A Look at the UAD Overhaul

Appraisal Buzz

Using the form structure, GSEs have been ingesting these eclectic abbreviations to develop a large database of residential valuation. In their software, appraisers have historical files that they may want to refer to, they have extensive template language already developed, and frankly they’re just used to it.

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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. Creating new content, whether in the form of text, photos, videos or computer code, is referred to as generative AI. Which real estate functions can AI outperform humans I asked GPT-4 about real estate valuation.

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Increasing Diversity in Appraisal Profession.

Appraisal Buzz

The Urban Institute recently released a blog post entitled – Increasing Diversity in the Appraisal Profession Combined with Short-Term Solutions Can Help Address Valuation Bias for Homeowners of Color. In the past, financial institutions were a viable training ground. Most independent fee appraisers work on very small margins.

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The Automated Appraisal: Tips for a Changing Appraisal Environment

Genworth MI Blog

When you hear automated appraisal, that refers to a computer doing the valuation without an appraiser. In addition to the automated appraisal, we’re starting to see moves toward a hybrid appraisal process called bifurcation , meaning that a computer and a person complete the valuation. What does that mean?

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The Automated Appraisal: Tips for a Changing Appraisal Environment

Genworth MI Blog

When you hear automated appraisal, that refers to a computer doing the valuation without an appraiser. In addition to the automated appraisal, we’re starting to see moves toward a hybrid appraisal process called bifurcation , meaning that a computer and a person complete the valuation. What does that mean?