Appraisal & Consulting

New England CRE chapter teams up with Boston RICS chapter

The New England/Upstate NY CRE Chapter held its first joint program with the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors Boston Chapter (RICS) on...

Real estate advice for a boom and bust economy

Recently, I was in discussion with a group of colleagues regarding the boom and bust cycles of real estate, about which I've written in the ...

Interagency guidelines - How do they affect appraisal practice?

New appraisal and evaluation guidelines were issued by the Fed, OCC, FDIC, OTS, and the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) in Decem...

Foreign investors have returned to the U.S.

The foreign investors have returned to the U.S. and are looking in Boston once again and the ranks are increasing in geographic diversity. T...

USPAP revisions to rules and standards and the appraiser

Appraisers have been dealing with USPAP for over twenty years after FFIREA was instituted by Congress. In that time there have been countles...

Review of new evaluation guidelines & selecting AVM

Part one appeared in the March 11th edition of the New England Real Estate Journal. I've outlined some general guidelines for software selec...

New features being added to the Appraisal Inst. web site

As we finally enter the spring season, I would like to update you on all the great features we are adding to the Appraisal Institutes Massac...

Schnell awarded the SRA designation

One of the greatest pleasures of being a chapter president of the Appraisal Institute is the announcement and awarding of a "designation" to...

Governor Patrick signs House Bill 277 into law with help from MBREA

According to MBREA, governor Deval Patrick signed House Bill 277 into law. Chapter 447 of the Acts of 2010 represents two years of diligent ...

Torto summerizes 2011 as better but sees less recovery

The New England/Upstate NY CRE Chapter held its first program with Ray Torto, CRE, global chief economist at CBRE, Boston in the global rese...