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Could being located next to a property that is an eye-sore cause a loss in marketvalue to your home? Part of our work as appraisers is to consider whether situations like this are influencing the marketvalue of the home we are appraising. Of course, that’s not the same as marketvalue.
One big one is their Zestimate’s inaccuracy at predicting marketvalue, and more specifically, they were relying on their own Zestimates to make important decisions like buying & selling homes. Just think how much more difficult it would have been to flip in a declining market.” My opinion of value – $345,000.
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And although it shouldn’t, it may unintentionally influence the appraiser’s comparable selection and eventually impact a direction in value. Maybe looking at the sales contract only after developing the appraiser’s opinion of value would help avoid the above concern? When contract prices and value often differ.
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This also opens the door for pushback on related changes, such as the expansion of the Nondiscrimination rule of the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice, or the addition of valuation bias education to the RealProperty, to the extent that either of these would include content that goes beyond what exists in statute already.
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