Our guest poster this week is on technology, written by my long time friend and colleague, Steven R. Smith, MSREA, MAI, SRA. Steve has an MS in Real Estate Appraisal, BS in Real Estate Finance, MAI and SRA designations. Appraising since 1976, with prior experience in lending and sales. His Master’s thesis was on Real […]
Consumer home loan valuations serve those who pay the bill – the lender. This cost is passed on to the buyer, and the buyer usually has a right to get a ‘copy’ of the report. However, the valuation is not there to help the buyer decide whether the price is fair or a good investment. […]
Standards: Credible v Reliable. Editor’s Note: This is Standards, part 3.4 of George Dell’s series on How Do I Move to EBV? Links to the earlier posts are here. Here, we specifically note how the goal of having valuation standards can be updated to reflect today’s complete data, and computation analytics can be optimized for […]