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  ASB adopts final changes to USPAPFriday, April 19, 2019 At its public meeting in Kansas City, Mo., the Appraisal Standards Board (ASB), an independent board of The Appraisal Foundation (TAF), adopted the final changes to Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP) for the 2020-21 edition.
Valuation Review spoke with TAF Appraisal Issues Vice President John Brenan about that, and other matters pertaining to the document.
Read on to learn more. |
 RICS, ASA form partnership for valuationFriday, April 19, 2019 Two organizations are joining forces to make a difference.
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and the American Society of Appraisers (ASA) have agreed to work together to ease fragmentation in the global valuation industry.
Read on to find out more about this alliance. |
 Freddie, Fannie talk appraisal policy changesFriday, April 19, 2019 Valuation Review was in attendance at this year’s Valuation Expo conference in Chicago.
Freddie Mac’s Scott Reuter, chief appraiser and director of valuation single family, along with Lyle Radke, director of collateral policy and strategy at Fannie Mae, gave the audience several key updates for appraisers.
Read on to find out what their presentations revealed. |
LRES names new CTOFriday, April 19, 2019 LRES appointed Scott Spencer as its chief technology officer, where he will drive efficiencies by delivering technological applications, tools, and services that streamline and enhance the company’s current capabilities, the company announced. Read on to learn more.
Global DMS launches appraising tool Friday, April 19, 2019 Global DMS recently rolled out SnapVal, an automated solution that utilizes the property address to return a guaranteed price on any residential appraisal in the U.S. Read on to learn more.
Fannie Mae appoints CEOFriday, April 19, 2019 Fannie Mae recently appointed Hugh R. Frater as CEO. The position went into effective March 26. Read on to learn more.
 FHA policies, updates discussed at conferenceWednesday, April 17, 2019 Valuation Review attended the 2019 Valuation Expo in Chicago where Federal Housing Administration (FHA) Home Valuation Policy Division Director Cheryl Walker spoke.
Walker brought an FHA overview to the audience pertaining to appraisal quality and policy/system updates.
Read on to find out more of what Walker told conference attendees.
 Millennials facing biggest homeownership challenges-Part IIWednesday, April 17, 2019 In Part II of Valuation Review’s feature, we continue to highlight the comments from noted author and marketing expert Bethany McLean.
The keynote speaker from the 2019 Valuation Expo in Chicago details more concepts about market stability, private capital, and just where the appraiser falls in to all of this.
Read on for the conclusion.
 Authenticity is difficult task in art appraisal-Part IIWednesday, April 17, 2019 Valuation Review continues to look into the world of art appraisals, specifically, Chinese art where recently a school was duped into overpaying on a painting that wasn’t exactly appraised at its true value.
In Part II of this commercial feature, we hear from a pair of art experts who detail the great difficulty it is to assess value to art.
Read on for the conclusion.
Companies launch commercial data agreementWednesday, April 17, 2019 For commercial real estate professionals, finding a way to combine property financials with other appraisal data without painstaking manual data entry has been challenging. In what it called a first-of-its-kind agreement, FUEL Enterprises and Enriched Data announced a data integration partnership that makes that ideal a reality. Read on to learn more.
OpenClose extends its digital mortgage programWednesday, April 17, 2019 OpenClose announced that it is has scheduled a May release for the official rollout of its digital mortgage point-of-sale (POS) solution, ConsumerAssist Digital POS. Read on to learn more.
LoanLogics, VirPack form partnership Wednesday, April 17, 2019 LoanLogics has formed strategic partnership aimed at accelerating mortgage data and document processing to streamline operational workflows for lenders' mortgage manufacturing, loan acquisition and quality control processes. Read on to learn more.
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