Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Legacy, headquartered in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was founded in 2002 and purchased by its CEO Jack Thompson in 2006. Clients will also benefit from access to new digital and customer relationship tools that improve every step in the lending experience, including servicing, a Guild strength for decades,” Thompson said in prepared remarks.

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Appraisal Buzz

MAY 17, 2021

This left the appraiser wide-open to being a target of “a series of errors” that affected the credibility of the valuation results. Between 2002-2005 in many markets, the real estate market was scorching, much like it is today. Appraisers’ jobs are not to facilitate mortgage lending. It is not our job to kill or make deals.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 11, 2020

The most abhorrent racist practices, such as redlining, are officially prohibited, yet bias creeps into mortgage lending in myriad ways. For example, many appraisers were artificially inflating home valuations to cover the assistance, driving housing prices to insupportable highs from which they eventually crashed.

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Appraisal Today

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Some appraisers, a true minority, have been able to transition to private, non-mortgage-lending appraisal work, but that’s not as easy as some advocate. And many appraisers who only know how to do mortgage lending assignments are reluctant to market themselves outside that confined space. The GSEs started keeping track in 71.

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Appraisal Today

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Mortgage Lending You decide. It ruled that the lender did not owe the borrower a legal duty to assure that the independent appraiser’s valuation was correct. Excerpts: Accurate appraisals are essential to the integrity of mortgage lending. Do not use lender forms. Type of report. Use of appraisal.

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Appraisal Today

MAY 12, 2023

Fannie Mae will end up creating more instability for the trillions in the bond market – investors will have to process millions of valuations with the physical attributes of the home collected by unlicensed, uninsured, and unprepared individuals getting paid $10-$25 per inspection. Mortgage lending is very, very cyclical.

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McKissock

MAY 13, 2022

On the podcast’s website, Owen states, “My goal in this podcast is to help you to see real estate and valuations in a new light, and to understand a little more about real estate and valuation.” The podcast covers a variety of topics involving the real estate, appraisal, and lending industries.

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