The average real estate appraiser makes around $90,000 annually, and it’s an excellent career for a detail-oriented person intrigued by “solving the puzzle” of property value. In this guide, I’ll ...

In an industry where technology is changing the way we do business minute by minute, one of the most important factors when purchasing a home is done in an archaic fashion. The residential appraisal ...

Automated valuation models (AVMs) debuted in the 1950s as computer-assisted mass appraisals (CAMAs) that were created to meet assessors' demand during the post-depression/WWII housing boom. They are ...

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Should a bank be allowed to use its own staff to value properties if it believes that there aren’t enough appraisers in its market to meet demand or that outside appraisals have become too costly?