Appraisal & Consulting

Understanding HVCC: Good intentions gone awry

From my standpoint, the Home Valuation Code of Conduct (HVCC), which is about to become effective May 1st, is an excellent example of good i...

Fannie, Freddie & fees challenge residential appraisers

Fees are a touchy subject in the appraisal profession. If you have any labor background at all you know that wages are typically classified....

It's time to join the Appraisal Institute

With the first quarter over, the commercial real estate market has continued to decline in many respects. For appraisers and appraisals, the...

Educational offerings for R.I. Appraisal Institute members

Education, the life blood of our organization, is in full swing. Kudos goes to S. Keith White, SRPA, education chair of the R.I. Chapter of ...

CRE held National Conference in N.Y.C. - March 29th-31st

The Counselors of Real Estate held its National Conference in NYC at The Waldorf-Astoria March 29th - 31st. Approximately 200 CREs attended ...

Housing: Are there any signs of life out there? Part 2

Part one appeared in the March 13th edition of the NEREJ in the Appraisal & Consulting section. My decidedly unscientific survey of area re...

Working forest easements: What are they/their worth?

In recent years the term "working forest easement" has been used with reference to conservation easements placed on large forested tracts th...

The market one year after the start of the recession: How it got to the way it is today

Quarter 1 2008 is the consensus view of the start of our current recession. If one were to think back a year, there was no recession in the ...

The many economic paradoxes of our time

The more you read and listen to, the more you realize that there are as many differing opinions as there are experts on the economy, real es...

View from the edge: Time to enjoy simpler things in life

Life certainly has gotten simpler with the recession in full swing. I have learned to enjoy the simple, but meaningful, things in my little ...