Many dynamics are changing the appraisal profession. Fed by the ever increasing and often nonsensical demands of clients, many appraisers ar...
The Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP) defines an appraisal as an opinion of value, and also as the act or process...
The Appraisal Institute has taken a major leadership role in joining with other prominent professional organizations to form the "Internatio...
Most appraisers I speak to are buried with work. Refinance activity is brisk with mortgage rates at all-time lows. There's a frenzy of activ...
While demographic data and trends are not, by themselves, a tool to predict future demand drivers, understanding the preferences of the vari...
All of a sudden it seems, our annual Federal deficit an overall budget problems have been solved! Maybe, maybe NOT. However, major news outl...
Do you remember how you became an appraiser? Did you have a friend in the business? A mentor? A family member? Perhaps someone who brought y...
Real estate markets do not take the summer off. Bankers traditionally rotated through the credit committee in the summer for vacationing mem...
The MBREA is in the midst of transforming appraiser education in New England with a series of exciting developments. The changes began to ap...
So many things to talk about, don't know where to begin. Nice to see the Sox off to a good start, I'm looking for 91 wins. I wouldn't take i...
