Genworth MI Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Recently, the rural housing landscape has sparked discussion about its lending, affordable housing availability, housing shortages and outreach to underserved demographics. The result is loan delays, frustrated consumers, lost loans, rate lock complications, annoyed appraisers and lost productivity. Limited appraiser availability.

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Clear Capital

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

How do you feel when an appraisal revision request pops up in your inbox in the morning? You already painstakingly checked your appraisal report the previous night before hitting ‘send’ and now you’re on your screen the next day, making revisions to the same report under a tight deadline! . How to prevent appraisal revision requests.

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Clear Capital

DECEMBER 21, 2022

As an appraisal quality leader and former field appraiser, I know firsthand that working in the real estate appraisal industry can be a wild ride. Due to emerging shifts in the mortgage loan market, there is a heightened sense of urgency to review the conventional loan appraisal guidelines. . Location, location, location.

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Portland Appraisal Blog

APRIL 14, 2019

Streaking through the atmosphere is a meteor scientists have dubbed “the appraisal”; it came of out nowhere and impacts your deal at hypersonic velocity, obliterating it in an instance. If so, you’ve probably run through the five stages of grief: 1) Denial—there’s no way that idiot appraiser killed my deal! There must be some mistake.

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Appraisal Today

APRIL 14, 2023

Appraising Fixer Uppers Excerpts: We’re all familiar with the term “fixer-upper.” The degree and cost to cure becomes an issue to buyers and sellers, and a challenge for appraisers. The rest of the post is a very good case study To read more, click here My comments: I have appraised many fixer-uppers.

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Birmingham Appraisal

AUGUST 14, 2024

An Interesting Trend Among New Homes As a residential real estate appraiser in the Birmingham, AL market for over 30 years I have seen many changes in new home construction. After the crash, there was a decline in the size of homes which may have been brought on by more conservative lending practices due to the crash.

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Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 10, 2022

They should be well known, respected among agents in the area, and highly specialized in mortgage lending. Consider writing into the offer that you’ll purchase the property regardless of the appraised value. This is different than the appraised value which, these days as prices rise, can be lower than list price.

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Lamacchia Realty

MARCH 12, 2024

They should be well known, respected among agents in the area, and highly specialized in mortgage lending. Consider writing into the offer that you’ll purchase the property regardless of the appraised value. This is different from the appraised value which, as prices rise, can be lower than the list price.

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Lamacchia Realty

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

They should be well known, respected among agents in the area, and highly specialized in mortgage lending. Consider writing into the offer that you’ll purchase the property regardless of the appraised value. This is different than the appraised value which, these days as prices rise, can be lower than list price.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

If one would normally pay 20% based upon their tax bracket, they will pay 10% instead. We could even go so far as to allow for a further reduction of up to 60% of the capital gains tax liability if the condition of the sold investment property is C3 or better, as determined by an appraiser. Under this plan, that would drop to 7.5%.

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