Appraisal & Consulting

It's time to join the Appraisal Institute

Two months into the year the commercial real estate market has begun an uneven recovery. The firdt signs of positive growth are in multi-fam...

Full court press: Another case of shooting the messenger bearing bad news

Appraisers are officially the culprits in obstructing the housing recovery. The National Association of Realtors and the National Associatio...

Renting: A cultural shift away from ownership, or not?

seems like it was a pretty good year. While things were clearly slow, the Dow Jones was up 6% year over year, corporations are showing profi...

Second home sales as a leading indicator

Over our 30-year history appraising real property in southern Vermont we have experienced no less than five economic cycles that included a ...

Reflecting on four years as chapter chair of CRE

This article will serve as my last publication as The New England/Upstate NY CRE chapter chair after 4 years. Looking back it has been inter...

What the New Year may bring and ways to have fun in 2012

I took a survey of my various circles of friends: the bankers, the appraisers, the brokers, the assessors, the hockey players that didn't kn...

Micro events and short term trends are worth the trouble

The year end reports will soon be released and quarterly and annual trends will be available for all to reconcile with forecasts. Much is al...

Is there a shortage of real estate appraisers?

A recent study of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts appraisal licensure database shows an alarming drop - over 80% - in the number of apprai...

Here's hoping for an upswing in 2012!

What is in store for real estate for this coming year? Before answering that question, some review is needed. More than at any other time du...

Challenges and opportunities for the valuation profession

The year ahead will hold many changes, challenges and opportunities for both residential and commercial real estate appraisers. We are in th...