Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 24, 2022

LOUIS — January 24, 2022 — With Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac accepting desktop appraisals beginning in March, Incenter Appraisal Management and McKissock Learning are partnering to help appraisers update their remote inspection skills in response. Additional webinars will be scheduled on an ongoing basis. Click here to register.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 18, 2021

In a couple of words, it’s collaborative valuation; in a description it’s bringing together a team of professionals to tackle each appraisal report in concert. What is Collaborative Valuation? The problem with trainees in most GSE and agency (FHA, USDA, AND VA) related work is that trainees cannot inspect properties.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 11, 2023

“The second part of the strategy is to offer a wider variety of valuation options.” From a modernization perspective, we want to promote consistent and fair valuation outcomes, simplify the loan manufacturing process, reduce borrower costs and effectively manage risk. If we can check those boxes, we succeed.

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Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 8, 2025

ProxyPics Website: ProxyPics.com ProxyPics is a cutting-edge real estate technology platform transforming property data collection and valuation for the mortgage industry. ProxyPics also offers a fully web-based self-inspection solution, allowing borrowers to complete inspections remotely using their own devices.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

By leveraging selective data and cutting-edge technology, the solutions from homegenius Real Estate help lenders make informed and efficient decisions. The AAR consists of an onsite property inspection completed by a local and licensed real estate agent or broker.

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 27, 2025

The drive toward modernization has led to technological advancements and more data-driven valuations, which leaves many appraisers at a crossroads: while these changes can lead to greater efficiency and fairer home valuations, adopting new tech can be scary. The residential appraisal profession is at a transformational moment.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 13, 2022

Technology will continue to infiltrate the industry – learn about how ProxyPics technology and tools will put you at the forefront of real estate transactions as the GSEs continue to evolve valuation options in the digital age. Luke Tomaszewski: I’m an 18-year veteran of the real-estate valuation industry.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2021

Over the last several years, significant technology trends continue to change the way people interact and work, and collateral valuation is no exception. This unique valuation offering is bolstered by the industry’s largest, most comprehensive database of property and homeowner information and recorded document images.

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Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2024

Buying a home in a non-disclosure state, where sale prices are not available to the general public, presents a unique set of challenges and requires home buyers to be more proactive in gathering information. Comparables can help agents assess current market trends, and make informed decisions when it comes to a fair offer price.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2021

Real estate technology has changed rapidly over the last few years, and property valuation is no exception. Quantarium, an artificial intelligence and RE data analytics company, along with Valligent Technologies, a valuation technology innovator and an appraisal management company, created QVM Insights.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This latest product uses computer vision to assess aerial imagery from airplanes and other sources and extracts information about property conditions, with a focus on marketability and property value , the company said Wednesday. The solution renders an array of nationwide property information available in one PDF report.

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Appraisal Buzz

DECEMBER 15, 2021

In today’s Buzzcast, we dive into the heated debate from Valuation Expo, “To Inspect or not to Inspect” where we discuss both sides to the new bifurcated appraisal. and Jordan Petkovski, Vice President and Chief Valuations Officer of Mueller Reports. How is this information beneficial to appraisers?

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Appraisal Buzz

DECEMBER 15, 2021

In today’s Buzzcast, we dive into the heated debate from Valuation Expo, “To Inspect or not to Inspect” where we discuss both sides to the new bifurcated appraisal. and Jordan Petkovski, Vice President and Chief Valuations Officer of Mueller Reports. How is this information beneficial to appraisers?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2023

Lender and appraisal management companies and other property data collection companies can now use Black Knight ‘s Scout mobile property inspection as part of the value acceptance plus property data process. The government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) approved six vendors following the roll-out of its new valuation initiative.

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Birmingham Appraisal

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Tips To Ensure a Successful Appraisal When it comes to the home appraisal process, providing complete and accurate information is critical for a successful appraisal. Real estate agents and loan officers play an important role in ensuring appraisers have the necessary data to deliver reliable valuations.

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Housing Wire

MAY 16, 2024

The new feature harnesses the capabilities of multimodal artificial intelligence to instantly analyze and summarize complex property documents, including inspection reports, appraisals and seller disclosures. It pulls information from more than 30 data providers.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 8, 2022

In a recent survey by the National Association of Realtors , floor plans ranked as the third most desired listing feature for homebuyers, after photos and detailed listing information. But floor plans are a relative rarity on multiple listings services: only 10-15% home listings in the U.S. have floor plans. said Allen. Presented by: Rently.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2023

and Bradford Technologies announced their partnership at the Valuation Expo in Las Vegas on Monday. The process encourages the use of emerging technologies to capture property information, imagery, and floor plans.” This is a service every appraiser needs to improve their inspection efficiency.”

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Housing Wire

JULY 11, 2024

Opteon, a leader in the appraisal and property valuation industry, utilizes their tech-enabled service fulfillment to streamline and enhance the appraisal process. Advanced data collection: The future of appraisals Data collection is a cornerstone of Opteon’s strategy to revolutionize the valuation industry.

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 24, 2022

Learn about all of the new features in RemoteVal – a free inspection app for appraisers! RemoteVal has added a Dynamic Floor Plan Creator, in addition to allowing the appraiser to visually inspect the property in real-time on the date of inspection. We sat down with our hosts to get the inside scoop on this upcoming webinar.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2023

Property data collection consists of a complete interior and exterior inspection of the subject property. For example, Class Valuation , one of the nation’s largest AMCs, provides its data collectors with imagery technology that creates a digital twin of the property. What is property data collection? But you already know this.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Meanwhile, incomplete or inaccurate information can lead to faulty lending decisions that put lenders and their AMCs at risk. Today, new technology can assist appraisers, AMCs and lenders with visual inspection, analysis, and intelligence to validate information, detect issues, and derive data-backed insights on every loan.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2021

ServiceLink’s unique tech-enabled mortgage services include valuations as well. We have a valuations team solely dedicated to the wholesale market, whose dedicated hands-on approach ensures milestones and commitments are met. Clients are able to quickly schedule their appraisal inspection, without phone tag or other scheduling delays.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2022

From drive-through closings to drone-guided inspections, industry experts got creative to meet the growing demand for new homes for a surge of homebuyers and homeowners who wanted to take advantage of low interest rates. It’s incumbent on the appraiser to verify and determine they have accurate, reliable, credible information,” he said.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2021

And during these hectic times, they could benefit from a solution that manages their portfolio to ensure they’re making well-informed decisions. Our solutions are highly-compliant and follow the most stringent guidelines and valuation requirements.”. Cost, time, and compliance are three of the major roadblocks faced by lenders.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Home services tech startup Porch.com made its debut on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange Thursday morning at a valuation of $523 million. Porch, a home services marketplace with partners in insurance, utilities, home inspection and moving, plans to use the cash to pursue acquisitions to seize the opportunity in real estate.

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2023

Appraising can be a subjective process in a lot of ways — as appraisers are always working within dollar ranges and imperfect information. These additional valuation options will lessen the opportunity for appraisal bias.” The need to physically inspect each property will be replaced with data or other inspection options in many cases.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Further, Fannie notes, “Leveraging the wealth of big data, the power of advanced analytics, and the speed of technology, appraisers can perform desktop appraisals without physically inspecting the property.” Here are six misconceptions surrounding what AVMs currently do for appraisal valuation: 1. ” Amazing, right?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 3, 2022

According to Clear Capital, the tool uses computer vision technology to highlight the right files automatically so underwriters can make more efficient and informed decisions. According to a recently published study by the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 18, 2021

All of these markets benefit from an accurate understanding of valuation and property characteristics, but the data sources that power them leave out a crucial component: property condition. Unfortunately, the days of getting up-to-date property condition information from an appraisal are over. The waning pandemic in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Artificial Intelligence company Quantarium announced on Thursday its partnership with Valligent Technologies to launch a condition adjusted “Quantarium Valuation Model” for equity lending, broker price opinions and real estate owned valuations. It can also factor in the effects of local events like foreclosures and recent sales.

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Housing Wire

MAY 25, 2021

In these scenarios, no inspection or appraisal of any kind is performed on the property. As an alternative, Clear Capital believes it would be more prudent to use a standalone property data collection process, then use that timely information about the property to determine if a desktop appraisal may be needed. Poor data visibility.

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Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 9, 2021

Local, State, and Federal policy can play a significant role in an appraiser’s business – it is important to stay informed about what is happening around us. Not so long ago, there were very few appraisers that knew about property inspection waivers. Who even knew about desktop valuations or evaluations?

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Appraisal Buzz

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Lenders and stakeholders allowed for some level of inspection relief with these two new appraisal products. We live in a world that is transitioning from the Information Age to the Digital Age. Inspection relief was successful as lenders and appraisers developed appropriate processes. Catalysts of change.

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Housing Wire

MAY 9, 2023

Reggora contends that this traditional approach relies on “incomplete and imperfect information,” which could then lead to errors in the timely disposition of an appraisal order. This could lead to “lackluster” turn times, revision rates and fee escalation that the new platform is aiming to address.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Scot Rose , CIO at Class Valuation , to talk about innovation in the appraisal space and how the technology being deployed for appraisal modernization can actually protect appraisers. SW: How is Class Valuation leveraging AI? How is Class Valuation rising to that challenge?

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