Part I: There is a growing school of thought that bubbles - real estate, stock or otherwise - are inevitable; i.e. that they are now part of...
Many residential appraisers are in full crying mode about nearly everything. No reason to be overly sympathetic. While the current crisis ha...
On Tuesday, September 21st, the Massachusetts Chapter of the Appraisal Institute and the Massachusetts Association of Assessing Officers hel...
A "dead cat" bounce is a Wall St. term that refers to a brief, usually unfounded, recovery in the stock market. The term derived from the id...
Appraisals are at the core of most financing related transactions. Much is said about the accuracy of appraisals, the pressure brought to b...
A consistent issue is the use of private verses MLS sales. There are those that advocate only using MLS sales and others who feel that some ...
Is it just me? It seems like every appraisal I've done over the past month has had something wacky about it. Are the only people refinancing...
Statistics abound about what a lousy economy we are in. There's lots of bad news about real estate. You can read it in local and national ne...
There seems to be a greater than usual unwillingness to let it go because it was a great summer, but it's over. The fall season is fast appr...
The time period of 2005 through 2007 are embedded in my mind as the giddy years of the financial industry - a time when many participants we...
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