Appraisal & Consulting

MA & RI Chapter of the Appraisal Institute Task Force

The MA & RI Chapter of the Appraisal Institute Task Force met to discuss opportunities to extend outreach into our local communities. The t...

CRE Message: The ever changing retail landscape

Technology is a wonderful thing. Advances in communication, medicine, agriculture and transportation have altered our world in so many ways....

Who will absorb America's next housing boom?

You have heard me, and many others, discuss the future of housing in context of baby boomers and Millennials (Generation Y). Not many mentio...

Boomer housing downsizing a given? Not so fast

There has been a lot of literature about the coming tsunami of baby boomers who will need to downsize their housing requirements. Born betwe...

CRE Message: Excelling at providing quality education

The Counselors of Real Estate is a membership organization established exclusively for real estate advisors who provide intelligent, unbiase...

Changes experienced in his 50+ years of appraising

Bruce Taylor, MAI, SRA, of Fairlee, Vermont, wrote this article about the changes he has experienced in his 50+ years of appraising. Bruce i...

The ever changing world of real estate appraisers

Hopefully by the time you are reading this we will have broken the all time record for snow in Boston, because really, if we are going to ha...

President's message: March (verb) a steady advance.

March (verb) a steady advance. Looking back at my path to designation, the March, as measured over a career, was in the greater context, a s...

Is the appraisal profession dying?

I was at a meeting with fellow appraisers the other day and we were discussing the state of the profession and its recent history. It was a ...

Fed watch and strategies: Patience with the recovering

Patience with the recovering and expanding economy is the watch word for the FED as the economy approaches mid-year 2015. Some are already a...