Appraisal & Consulting

Patterns emerging in the local property markets

The local property markets are starting to reveal patterns of economic activity, and capital will soon further clarify the metrics of the re...

Appraisal Institute president message: How is the market?

If you introduce yourself as a real estate appraiser, you are invariably asked, "how's the market?" And sometimes, the questioner is serious...

R.I. president's message: Proposed legislative action

At a recent director's meeting of the Rhode Island Chapter a lively discussion regarding the recently passed Home Valuation Code of Conduct ...

Fourth quarter commercial real estate stats released

As I am writing this article during February, our chapter is planning a March 2nd "Overview of the Real Estate Market" with our CRE member, ...

Condo lending: Drilling down beyond the buyer

I had the opportunity recently to visit Florida to get out of the icy New England weather. As widely reported, Florida's weather has been ch...

Harold Brown speaks at chapter's first event in 2010

The CRE Chapter held its first lunch event of the year on January 21st at Posternak, Blankstein & Lund, Prudential Center, Boston. Over 35 C...

Real (estate) time: Somethings change too fast

Who says that one person can't make a difference in this world? The last few weeks, largely brought on by the election of one little known M...

What is going on... The oddities out there having to do with real estate appraising

Is it just my skewed view of reality or does the appraisal business not make a whole lot of sense right now? (It may not have made a lot of ...

Jobs and the budgets and expectations for the market

President Obama announced job initiatives as priority number one in his first State of the Union message to joint meeting of congress on Jan...

MBREA presidents message: Meeting with the committees

I would like to thank those who were able to attend the President's Night at Lombardos on January 14th. We had over 50 members and guests. R...