Housing Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Mortgage tech company Xactus announced that its valuation solution Appraisal Firewall X has met federal requirements and is capable of fulfilling Fannie Mae property data collection orders. ” Fannie Mae’s program is part of its ongoing efforts to modernize the valuation component of the mortgage industry. .

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Kenon Chen, executive vice president of strategy and growth at Clear Capital , to talk about appraisal modernization and how technology is just part of the solution. SW: How are appraisers adapting to some of these challenges, including new rules on valuations from the GSEs?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2023

Fannie Mae has approved six firms to handle its new valuation initiative, which cuts traditional appraisers out of the process and potentially represents the biggest shift in the valuation space in years. Our appraisal, property inspection, title and closing technologies are designed to plug into any digital platform.”

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Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2021

Here it is: another article about appraisal modernization. The FHFA RFI responses to appraisal modernization are a treasure trove of insight into ideas and options for modernization from a wide variety of respondents. The changes will impact just about everything and everyone in the collateral valuation space.

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Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 2, 2025

New ACI Sky Workbench Platform is Designed to Modernize Appraisal Processes SANTA ANA, Calif. Designed by appraisers for appraisers, Workbench modernizes appraisal workflows, enabling valuation professionals to take on additional assignments and complete them faster and with greater accuracy, while reducing the need for revisions.

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Appraisal Buzz

MAY 31, 2021

The second appraiser could also have been incompetent, resulting in an over valuation of the couple’s property. The property valuation industry has a system for dealing with situations where a home’s appraised value is in dispute; it’s called the review process. Let’s unpack this situation…. My Journey.

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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Friends, appraisers, countrymen, lend me your ears: I’m Jason Covington, Tennessee appraiser, here to share my insider impressions of Valuation Expo XXI. Congrats to Bradford Technologies for the most splendidly designed golf hole and to the following VE Open winners: 1. Plus: prizes! Neil Ricafrente ($500); 2. Kris Osborn ($100); 3.

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Appraisal Buzz

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

For real estate appraisers, this includes attending industry conferences and seminars such as The Valuation Expo and The Appraisal Summit , taking both online and in-person courses from reputable providers, and even pursuing additional certifications or designations. Generally, they are expensive and time-consuming to achieve.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Her teams designed and delivered ULI’s signature educational programs, including Product Councils, UrbanPlan, University Connections, Awards, and ULI Learning. The Appraisal Institute has been criticized for a lack of diversity in its ranks and acknowledged a need to modernize. According to the group’s own statistics, 78% of U.S.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2023

AIR is designed to “safeguard the independence, objectivity, and impartiality of appraisers and other Independent Parties throughout the valuation process for 1 to 4-unit residential properties,” according to Fannie Mae. Fannie Mae approved six vendors for its controversial new valuation initiative a few days later.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

We looked at pricing, design quality, ease of use, lead generation features, and then combed online reviews to get feedback from other working Realtors. To help you find the best real estate website builder for your needs, our team of agents, brokers, and tech experts researched and ranked the best real estate website builders for 2024.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 19, 2021

It can lead a person to favor his or her own opinion over those of others, especially when those others are suggesting that our industry needs to modernize. I only held that job for a couple of years, but it drove home how vitally important real estate valuations are to the sound fiscal well-being of a community. Let’s talk about this.

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Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 28, 2024

Jim and Hal are back from Valuation Expo and ready to share their highlights from the event. This award is designed to recognize appraisers across the country, and best of all, you get to vote. Award winners will be revealed at the start of next year, and they’ll get a free pass to Valuation Expo 2025 to accept their award in person!

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Housing Wire

JUNE 27, 2023

Automated mortgage technology provider Lender Toolkit announced this week that it has integrated with Reggora , an appraisal management software company that focuses on modernizing residential real estate valuations for mortgage lenders.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2022

This will range from the technology used to conduct home appraisals and valuations, as well as the technology that lenders and appraisal vendors use to manage their operational workflows. For lenders who currently utilize a modern appraisal platform, they are looking to enhance the amount of communication between their LOS/POS and their AMS.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2024

Instead of just choosing a room type and furniture style, Reimaginehome lets you choose color themes, create landscape designs, and replace cloudy skies. By leveraging large datasets, these tools offer precise, data-driven valuations and insightful analysis.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The Pathway to Success conditional grant is designed to open up the appraisal profession to a new generation of appraisers and stipulates that participant priority be given to veterans, minorities and those in designated rural areas, AI said this week. According to the group’s own statistics, 78% of U.S. identify as Black and 4.3%

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 14, 2024

But being an appraiser today brings risks and rewards, making the accuracy of property valuations and quality control not just a priority but a necessity. By leveraging the power of computer vision, they are developing scalable processes that incorporate best practices and objective third-party data to arrive at more accurate valuations.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 10, 2022

I have weathered seasons marred by valuation professionals whose malfeasance adversely impacted the economy and society. The future of the valuation profession is not certain to me. Technological advances suggest we need to move toward automated valuation models that churn data through automated algorithms to produce valuations.

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Appraiserblogs

MARCH 7, 2024

It is presented as part of the GSEs “Appraisal Modernization” initiative, which aims to streamline the mortgage appraisal process. Despite its roots in a methodology designed to support appraisers, Value. It’s time to grab your popcorn and… The post Is the GSE’s “Appraisal Modernization” Really Just Mass Appraisal?

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George Dell

MARCH 17, 2021

Legacy appraisal practice “the valuation process” is well established. It is not designed to use modern methods toward objective, unbiased results. Therein lies the problem. First, lets distinguish the different kinds of bias. We need to separate personal bias from analytic bias. Analytic bias itself can come […].

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Miller Samuel

APRIL 27, 2019

After years of AMCs chipping away at the public trust, the New York AMC law was designed to protect the consumer. The criticism seems like a weird attempt at fogging since this law is protective of USPAP and the public trust, something that has been forgotten in the attempt to "modernize" the appraisal industry. No, it isn't.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 12, 2021

My appraisal organization involvement includes Appraisal Institute membership where I hold the SRA and AI-RRS designations. I am past President of the North Texas Chapter, the National Association of Appraisers, where I hold the MNAA designation and am currently on the Board of Directors. Buzz: What is a supply chain shortage?

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 15, 2024

That’s how I first got involved in valuation technology. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are not designing the software for the future, but they have provided the specification for the Uniform Appraisal Data set (UAD) they want to receive. It was my father’s vision that we would “computerize.”

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

We’re exploring that topic at our Spring Summit on March 4 and asked Brian Zitin, co-founder and CEO of Reggora , to share his expertise on the panel titled, The Brave New World of Valuations. His time with Sonder Partners exposed Zitin to the inefficiencies in the modern appraisal process, which led to the start of Reggora.

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Appraisal Buzz

MAY 6, 2024

According to Mehlomakulu, ICON’s homes are 350% stronger and are designed to outlive the traditional spec home by nearly triple their life expectancy. Areas more exposed to such risk are likely to see increased volatility in valuations.” ICON houses have a two-hour rating for fire and reduce carbon emissions.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The front office offered a modernized 21 st Century App but the lender’s back-office personnel were still operating in the same manual manner they traditionally had. Many were pleasantly surprised that today’s modern web-based LOS platforms were designed to accommodate this. Collateral Valuation.

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Housing Wire

JULY 1, 2021

“We’ve found that many people care more about public spaces than private spaces,” says Katie Lambert, an interior designer with Lambert Home, referring to different living areas in a home. The kitchen is also one of the areas that is commonly in need of modernization, from outdated appliances to antiquated cabinet styles.

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Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 17, 2025

The ERC (Employee Relocation Council) report, also known as the Relocation Property Assessment (RPA) report, is a standardized appraisal report form designed to streamline the evaluation process for relocation properties. It was established by the Worldwide ERC, a professional association for relocation and workforce mobility.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2021

But they did not become key players in the home valuation industry until the recent housing bubble.”. The outcome was a settlement, the Home Valuation Code of Conduct, or, as appraisers swiftly dubbed it, havoc. That’s at least what the AMC trade group, the Real Estate Valuation Advocacy Association , contends.

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Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 15, 2024

The original forms were designed before the digital age, to be completed on typewriters. Appraisal software companies have innovated the process of “filling out “these forms, but they are still constrained with the original typewriter design. These forms became fixed in the mortgage industry and have remained the standard for decades.

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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

LLC, a leading provider of real estate valuation solutions with their flagship valuation platform called – Profet.ai. Ideas of modernization and data integrity have been heavily debated topics in the real estate industry for some time. By integrating with PropMix’s Profet.ai By integrating with PropMix’s Profet.ai

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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Real Estate valuation can be a complex exercise in problem solving. Appraisal Modernization. Adoption of the policy requirement for the ANSI standard is designed to mitigate the risk associated with obtaining critical property-specific data, as it is widely manually developed by the appraiser. Technologies are moving fast.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2021

Reggora is driving appraisal innovation with a modern platform for mortgage lenders and appraisal vendors. Reggora is designed for the future of valuation, which is expected to embrace new synergies between technology, data and human intelligence.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 7, 2022

For example, a loan processor may use a modern LOS to order a flood certification, title report, AUS decision or data verifications, but once the order has been placed, what if the data doesn’t arrive? But unless the automation is specifically designed to solve these problems, it stands little chance of being effective.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

Name Job Title Company Name Agnes Standowicz Senior Vice President and Head of Underwriting United Wholesale Mortgage Alayna Gardner Director of Sales and Marketing LodeStar Software Solutions Ali Haralson President Auction.com Amanda Tucker Chief Risk and Compliance Officer Atlantic Bay Mortgage Company Amy Gromowski Executive of Science and Analytics (..)

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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

AI SOP Creator Advisor : An innovative AI Agent we designed to help appraisers develop, refine, and optimize their standard operating procedures. This agent analyzes your current workflow, identifies best practices, and guides you through the process of creating comprehensive, efficient SOPs tailored to your specific business needs.

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