Appraisal & Consulting

What would make a perfect appraiser, and also who are the perfect clients?

At the heart of any appraisal lie the appraiser’s opinions. Appraisers know, deep down, that they are right, since it so hard to be proved...

MBREA holds "Breakfast with the Experts" June 26th

On June 26th the Massachusetts Board of Real Estate Appraisers held its "Breakfast With The Experts Current Market Conditions" program at th...

Appraisers and risk management

Banks of all sizes are under pressure to identify the value of their portfolios. The pressure comes not only from government regulators, but...

Appraisal Institute offered recommendations to Congress

Again let me thank the Massachusetts Chapter of the Appraisal Institute's supporting Premier Sponsors, Integra Realty Resources, CBRE/New En...

The idyllic days of summer and appraising marinas

The idyllic days of summer have arrived! Early sunrises and late sunsets punctuate delightfully long days. This is the time we appraisers re...

Has housing bottomed? Have we missed something?

"Has housing bottomed?" The collapse of the housing industry set off the great recession of 2008 and its recovery is critical to economic st...

Too much uncertainty? May be time to wait and watch

I can't remember a time when there were more balls in the air, issues affecting real estate, and no one able to say for certain where they w...

Ice road truckers in July? Is the CRE market onto something big in the future?

While there has been long needed improvement in the volume of sales in residential markets: buyers and sellers are finally finding a middle ...

Underwriting risks of uncertainty can be a challenge

Commercial real estate investment and performance are inextricably linked to the local, national and global economy. Underwriting risks of u...

If the future is not here yet, it soon will be

The mortgage market has been moving along very smoothly since the start of the year; the threat of a stalled U.S. economic recovery due to e...