Nothing like the warmth of summer, with its long days, and the Red Sox playing almost .700 baseball, to put everyone in a good mood. The economy is still chugging along with real estate values achieving all-time highs. To put it into
Seemingly unrelated, current commercial real estate capital markets and property markets are recording some pushback on rates and rents respectively. Also, a marginal decline in activity, volume and velocity. Summer stickiness was often
One last blast about what appraisal associations and individual appraisers should be doing to improve the appraisal profession. Here is a partial list: Lobby for a rule of lenity for appraisal regulations requiring that vague and ambiguous rules be
Connecticut land banks require interest, but not necessarily with a steep financial rate attached. In 2017, the Connecticut General Assembly established the authority for one or more municipalities to establish land banks and the interest is
I wrote two articles, Column A and Column B, for today’s NEREJ. I tossed Column A. Here is Column B: The state’s 190th legislative session was not kind to the real estate appraisal profession. Mandatory licensing, which is commonplace