In the past, I have written about how risk adjusted return requirements for real estate can vary. It was not a simple story, since one perso...
Despite the floods, many signs of hope are apparent in many of our residential 1-4 family markets, locally and nationally. The long winter m...
The market has lots of information. Beyond the forensic lab work and microbe traces familiar to the real estate community in name only, prop...
So, with my complete and utter failure as a March Madness prognosticator and not one pick in the Final Four and only two in the Elite Eight,...
The 1st quarter of the year has just slipped by. The stock market is chugging upward, but the real estate market appears to be stuck in neut...
The "it" in this article is the Appraisal Institute and principally the Massachusetts chapter, while the "about" refers to our purpose as we...
A friend and I recently had lunch and the topic of conversation turned to evolving real estate needs. We are both real estate professionals ...
As we pass the one year anniversary of the Home Valuation Code of Conduct (HVCC), one might ask if it has been a problem solver or has made ...
Once upon a time, not that long ago, appraisers, mortgage brokers, loan originators, buyers and sellers were all going along on their merry ...
At the end of 2009, The Appraisal Foundation (TAF) announced the creation of a third independent board, the Appraisal Practices Board (APB)....
