Appraisal & Consulting

Condo lending: Drilling down beyond the buyer

I had the opportunity recently to visit Florida to get out of the icy New England weather. As widely reported, Florida's weather has been ch...

Harold Brown speaks at chapter's first event in 2010

The CRE Chapter held its first lunch event of the year on January 21st at Posternak, Blankstein & Lund, Prudential Center, Boston. Over 35 C...

Real (estate) time: Somethings change too fast

Who says that one person can't make a difference in this world? The last few weeks, largely brought on by the election of one little known M...

What is going on... The oddities out there having to do with real estate appraising

Is it just my skewed view of reality or does the appraisal business not make a whole lot of sense right now? (It may not have made a lot of ...

Jobs and the budgets and expectations for the market

President Obama announced job initiatives as priority number one in his first State of the Union message to joint meeting of congress on Jan...

MBREA presidents message: Meeting with the committees

I would like to thank those who were able to attend the President's Night at Lombardos on January 14th. We had over 50 members and guests. R...

Appraisers are over regulated and underpaid

Perhaps I'm just getting cynical, but it seems to me that appraisers are getting the short end of the stick. Someone commented to me the oth...

A.I. held Economic Outlook and R.E. Trends 2010 meeting

The Massachusetts Chapter of the Appraisal Institute held its Economic Outlook and Real Estate Trends for 2010 meeting at the Federal Reserv...

R.I. chapter of A.I. expects another successful year

This past December the Rhode Island Chapter installed their new officers for the 2010 year. As the incoming president I am pleased to say th...

Deals and data for 2009 and the forecast for 2010

The local professional real estate community will soon be reporting fourth quarter activity for the commercial property submarkets and forec...