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Tips to Avoid Appraisal Problems

You finally reach a deal with a buyer to sell your house, or strike a deal with the seller of your dream home, only to see the deal fall apart later when the house doesn’t appraise for the price that has been agreed upon…what are you to do?  This is a plight that has become

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Making Appraisers the Scapegoat

It seems we always need to find someone to blame for our problems…

When it comes to the meltdown in the housing market that has taken place over the past three years there has been no lack of finger pointing by many inside and outside the industry as to factors that either caused or contributed to

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The real estate market and HVCC; from an appraisers perspective – Final post in the series

Dennis Norman

By: Dennis Norman

To day I am finishing up with the final post of my E-View with Frank Gregoire, a Florida appraiser and author of Appraiser Active.

Frank is often quoted as a source for nationally syndicated real estate columnists and appears as a

Francois (Frank) K. Gregoire, IFA RAA

speaker on appraisal and mortgage related

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26% of Home Builders are losing deals due to low appraisals

Dennis Norman

By: Dennis Norman

According to a nationwide survey conducted by the National Asssociation of Home Builders (NAHB) 26% of home builders are seeing signed sales contracts fall through the cracks because appraisals on their homes are coming in below the contract sales price. 
NAHB Chairman, Joe Robson, said “home builders are increasingly concerned that inappropriate appraisal practices are

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