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At the 2024 National Association of Appraisers (NAA)/Appraiser’s Conference and Trade Show in Colorado Springs, Valuation Review sat down with NAA President Malinda Griffin.

The new leader of the NAA gave us her candid thoughts about accepting the role of organization president, in addition to the many opportunities one can take advantage of to be a better appraiser.

Read on for our exclusive feature with the NAA president.

At the 2024 National Association of Appraisers/Appraiser’s Conference and Trade Show in Colorado Springs, Valuation Review sat in on the “Appraisal Econ 101” session with Bill Craighead, program director of the University of Colorado Colorado Springs Economic Forum.

Craighead shared his breakdown of the overall state of the economy.

Read on to learn more.

Recently, South Dakota lawmakers unanimously approved a report alleging Republican Gov. Kristi Noem’s daughter got preferential treatment while she was applying for a real estate appraiser’s license in 2020, according to the Associated Press.

Getting the word out as to what an appraiser is and, perhaps more importantly, what they do and how they do it is a key component of success. The appraiser’s ability to promote themselves is critical to grow the business and to differentiate it from the competition.

Part of the Marketing Your Business for Success report.

Clear Capital recently announced its partnership with Dark Matter Technologies, a mortgage technology provider.

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE) is releasing the MSP Digital Experience (MSP DX), a new conversational interface for working in MSP, ICE’s mortgage loan servicing system.

At the 2024 National Association of Appraisers/Appraiser’s Conference and Trade Show (ACTS) in Colorado Springs, Colo., Class Valuation Chief Appraiser John Dingeman offered his “Tips and Tools for Appraisers” session to the ACTS attendees.

Valuation Review was at the conference and caught up with Dingeman afterwards for a recap.

Read on for more from this exclusive conference feature story.

Two weeks after rejecting a $23 million price tag for the Williams Reserve property, Collier County, Fla., commissioners unanimously agreed to move forward May 28.

This took place when the seller accepted its $20.77 million offer, according to Gulfshore Business.

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The homeownership rate for Black households has grown faster than average since 2019.

However, it’s still below the high-water mark reached in 2004, before the Great Recession, according to an analysis by Zillow.

Read on for more numbers from this marketing report.

FoxyAI, a B2B proptech company in real estate visualization and property intelligence, recently announced it had been selected by Ascent Software Group, an Opteon sister company providing appraisal and mortgage software solutions, to automate the quality and condition scoring for its ’appraisers’ sales comparable property selections.

Fancher Mortgage Group and Jones Mortgage Group entered a strategic partnership with Calque. Both teams can now provide homeowners with a way to utilize their home equity to secure a new property before selling their current one.

Stout, a global advisory firm, recently announced its acquisition of a healthcare valuation and consulting services provider that has been a market leader in healthcare valuation for over two decades.

Annual growth flattened at 6.5 percent in March, while seasonal price gains surged and appreciation continued to heat up.

According to CoreLogic's S&P Case-Shiller Index report for March, this was beyond the typical seasonal uptick, pushing prices up by 1.3 percent.

Read on to l earn more from this market analysis.

With 30 percent of Americans who moved last year citing “family reasons” as their motivation, the personal-finance website WalletHub recently released its report on the “Best & Worst Places to Raise a Family in 2024.”

Theory Mortgage, a closing broker in Oregon, has partnered with buy-before-you-sell program provider Calque to launch The Trade-In Mortgage in Oregon.