Emily Sheedy
Director of Employee and Project Development
Dellbrook|JKS
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Check out the New England Real Estate Journal's 2020 Year in Review Spotlight here!
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Ever since AVMs first appeared on the valuation landscape some 30 years ago, appraisers have lamented that computer-generated values would replace them. Yet for the last 30 years, appraisal volumes have largely risen and the worry that AVMs would take appraisal work away from appraisers seemed misplaced – until now.
>The 2020 New England Appraisers Expo’s Commercial Program held on December 10
th featured representatives from the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority, the soon-to-open Omni Boston Hotel at the Seaport, COJE Management Group Corp. restaurant organization, and Newmark Boston’s restaurant leasing platform.
The pandemic has led to a variety of unforeseen trends in consumer behavior, such as a spike in demand for random items like pressure treated wood and real Christmas trees. Reading through the October 2020
Housing Market Report published by New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority (NHHFA)
Vaccines are expected to be delivered in Massachusetts shortly before the holiday season. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has prioritized healthcare workers and nursing home residents for initial vaccination, the most essential and the most vulnerable.
The total US national debt has just risen to almost $27 trillion, up from $23 million trillion just six months ago, and $11 trillion a few years ago. The annual budget deficit is projected to reach $3.3 trillion in 2020, largely brought on by government spending on the pandemic.
As professional real estate appraisers, we proudly point to the accomplishments that the profession has made over the past half century. We look to the ongoing development of high performance standards for our various practice areas, in part through the continued evolution of USPAP. We continue to enhance appraisal education for practicitioners and those seeking to enter the field.
Many years ago, before the advent of sophisticated computerized data bases, there was concern about what was called multiple versions of the truth. Computer systems of old were not updated simultaneously, so for example, the billing address and the shipping address were not cleanly organized.
Year In-Review: 2020 has certainly been a dynamically challenging year, if not the most challenging year since the beginning of the “mortgage meltdown” time and likely even more than that! The year began with a continuation of declining interest rate from 2019.
