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Opinion: Stranger than fiction: Eminent domain displacement

Housing Wire

To make matters worse, there has been no offer to pay you for your home’s fair market and sales value. It feels like you are being given a flippant 60-day notice as if you are a tenant with no ownership rights. To add further insult to injury, there is no compensation offer. But why wait for collective, legislative reform?

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The Challenges of Appraising Multifamily Properties

Appraisal Buzz

It’s not uncommon for people to have tenants or roommates, but you’ll typically find that isn’t the case with single-family houses. If you want to be a real estate investor, you wouldn’t necessarily purchase multiple single-family properties when you could fit more tenants into one building. That’s why multifamily homes exist.

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DataDigest: Office debt is stressing banks. That matters for mortgages.

Housing Wire

1, the company had lost 45% of its market value. Remote and hybrid work have dampened the prospects — and therefore valuations — of office towers across the country, causing tenants to miss rent payments and banks to write-down the asset values of the collateral tied to the loans they’ve made. By the end of Feb.

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Navigating the Appraisal Process – What You Need to Know

Simonson Real Estate

The understanding here is the tenants could vacate and a more reliable value is provided by the fee simple analysis based on market rents. Examples: A building owner has a single lease or multiple leases with tenants. The value may be the same as fee simple, but the interest is identified as a leased fee.

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Why Appraisers Don’t Depreciate Land

Cleveland Appraisal Blog

When developing an opinion of the market value of a property, what appraisers are really measuring is how much depreciation a property has suffered from, and more specifically how much depreciation the improvements on the land have depreciated. What’s the difference between a newly constructed home and a hundred-year-old home?

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What It Takes to Be An Expert Appraisal Witness in An Eminent Domain Case

Cleveland Appraisal Blog

Becoming an expert appraisal witness in an eminent domain case starts with developing a comprehensive understanding of how value is determined in this special proceeding. While most states allow fair market value to be established using traditional appraisal approaches (e.g. I hope you enjoy these also… .

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Why Industrial Space for Rent Is the Hottest CRE Sector in 2021

The Robert Weiler Company

The two scenarios surrounding build-to-suit are speculative buildings and scenarios where the tenant has already been secured. Speculative buildings are produced without the guidance of a specific tenant in mind but can be rewarding if they are of high quality and fulfill the needs of local businesses. Appearance.

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