Appraisal & Consulting

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...

Changes in appraiser, supervisory appraiser and trainee appraiser requirements

The Appraiser Qualifications Board recently promulgated changes in requirements for supervisory appraisers. These represent a continuing evo...

Hot new neighborhoods: it takes longer than you think

Lounging around on these snowy winter weekends, I've been catching up on reading about what's going on in other real estate markets. One rec...

CRE chair message: Where is that exit sign?

Ask any assortment of commercial real estate professionals, fund managers, and investors a key question and you will get a sense of their co...