Appraisal & Consulting

State of affairs: Where things stand at year-end

MBREA|The Association for Valuation Professionals government affairs committee had a busy 2014. The association wrote and filed three pieces...

Commercial real estate has evolved to reconcile strange bedfellows

Headlining global peace and hostility negotiations and forecasting national congressional progress, strange bedfellows have been everywhere....

Déjà vu, appraisers under pressure and the return to dodginess

Sign of the times we live in: I picked up the phone recently and there was a mortgage broker at the other end inquiring about my appraisal s...

Wealth gap impact on real estate: Large, and hard to fathom

It is not new news that the gap between the richest and poorest Americans widened in the years after the great recession, despite overall ec...

2014 New England Appraisers' Expo held October 6th

The 2014 New England Appraisers' Expo was held on October 6th at Sheraton Four Points Hotel. The morning's open session featured state regul...

Counselors of Real Estate's Fall Convention in Boston

Members of the New England Chapter of the Counselors of Real Estate (CRE) joined counterparts from around the globe at the 2014 Annual Fall ...

President's message: The holiday season is here

The holiday season, really? How can it be? Turning back the clocks and the associated getting out of work in the dark is my queue that winte...

Collateral underwriter: Fannie Mae's foray into the future

Fannie Mae is launching the latest in computer driven appraisal review with the advent of collateral underwriter (CU). This is a tool that w...

Vermont Appraisal Institute committed to being an education leader

In 2010, the Vermont Chapter of the Appraisal Institute's board of directors and chapter leadership acknowledged a market transformation was...

Data abounds: Economic growth and employment gains stabilize market

The recent release of economic data supports buoyancy that has been frequently missing during this recovery. Economic growth and employment ...