Home Value Modernization Valuation 
Housing Wire
OCTOBER 18, 2024
Jaro’s products are designed to offer new and improved solutions to help lenders tackle modern-day appraisals with pinpoint accuracy designed to eliminate bias and urban pricing discrepancies as homebuyers migrate between the suburbs and major cities. In fact, almost 20% of modern companies are fully remote as of 2024 , according to the U.S.
Appraisal Buzz
MAY 31, 2021
The first appraiser could have been incompetent, resulting in a lower value estimate for the couple’s property. The second appraiser could also have been incompetent, resulting in an over valuation of the couple’s property. However, the husband and wife in this article are not valuation professionals. The answer….
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Housing Wire
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
The residential appraisal space has been rocked by increased federal scrutiny over the past two years, with several agencies studying whether appraisers let racial bias change their valuations. Home value inequalities are the result of appraisal practices that elevate White spaces as the most valuable,” the report said.
Housing Wire
JUNE 14, 2022
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s equitable housing finance plans further expand non-traditional property appraisals, which sometimes rely on property tax information, data collected by third parties, or algorithms to assess a property’s value. Using its automated valuation models “leads to relatively lower racial gaps,” Freddie Mac said.
Appraisal Buzz
NOVEMBER 29, 2021
Appraisers use three different property valuation methods: (1) Sales Comparison relates the estimated value of our subject property to similar settled, active, and pending market sales. (2) 2) The Income Approach considers the present value of expected future cash flows. (3) Know what average home values are in your area. (2)
Housing Wire
JANUARY 10, 2023
GSE modern appraisal programs are finally expected to transition from test-and-learns to policy, the FHFA appears ready to accelerate work streams and data after their fintech RFI, and the ASC will begin conducting public hearings on appraisal governance and bias starting January 24.
Housing Wire
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
For instance, in the conversation at the ASC hearing on using automated valuation models (AVMs) as a viable, non-subjective tool for understanding value accuracy during underwriting , concerns were brought up about bias being present in the data itself. Is “better” good enough as a starting point?
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