The appraisal industry is under pressure from every direction — a shrinking workforce, mounting regulatory complexity, and growing demand for faster, more consistent valuations. A new class of AI-powered...
Demand for Debt Service Coverage Ratio (DSCR) rental loans is high with the real estate market shifting to more rentals and Short-Term rental investments gaining popularity. Whether you are...
Private lenders offering Bridge loans rely heavily on As-Is and After-Repair value (ARV) of a property and face a mix of valuation, operational, and risk-management challenges. These issues are...
“Time kills deals.” In private lending, this isn’t just a saying; it’s the harsh reality of your P&L. You have the borrower. You have the terms. The capital is...
Let me try to make a case for what we call – Model Driven Valuation. For many years now the real estate appraisal industry has been grappling with numerous...
As stated in each article in this series, the sales comparison approach is only as good as the comparables used to arrive at the value for the subject property....
The core foundation of the sales comparison approach to real estate appraisals is the quality of the comparables used and adjustments made to those comparables to arrive at a...
There are many steps in the process of reviewing appraisals and our focus in this series of articles is the comparable analysis step to validate the sales comparison approach....
The standards of real estate appraisal in the US includes 3 major methods for appraising the value of a real estate property – sales comparison approach, cost approach, and...
INTRODUCTION One of the top nationwide Appraisal Management Companies (AMC) that processes over 30K valuations per month wanted to get ready for desktop appraisals with dependable coverage and consistent...