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The number of active real estate appraisers continues to shrink, raising questions for mortgage lenders and servicers about how quickly they will be able to get home appraisals in the future and, perhaps more important, how good the quality of the reports...

The Juggling Act: Tracking Regulatory Trends in Real Estate Appraisal and Valuation “As we pick ourselves up from the crisis, we see that one source of these mortgage problems has been the validity of the home appraisal.” Leonard Nakamura...

Since May 1, 2009, we've been having problems with appraisals like never before. It's an interesting case study how the attorney general of one state used threats to blackmail a nationwide industry, installed personal controls and opportunities for graft...

Home appraisers are inflating the values of some properties they assess, often at the behest of loan officers and real-estate agents, in what industry executives say is a return to practices seen before the financial crisis. An estimated one in seven...

Real Estate Appraiser Shortage Grows The federal highway transportation bill congress passed earlier this month was touted by some as a post-Boehner, bipartisan compromise. But it wasn't long before the bill was criticized as anemic and a missed opportunity...