While certainly a necessary practice — and oftentimes required — most appraisal organizations and appraisers are looking for better ways to address the appraisal review process. Covering this from a global and all-inclusive perspective, we should first identify the stressful points throughout this hot topic process. 

In many circumstances, it is a simple as a lack of consistent formatting of reports that can frustrate both appraiser and reviewer. When the Uniform Appraisal Dataset (UAD) was introduced, it helped in lessening the wide variance of applicable, and sometimes not applicable, responses within any given assignment results performed on GSE forms.