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Making Sense of the Changing Landscape of Valuation: Appraisers and Data Standards

By Mark Linné | October 12, 2007

The following article is an excerpt based on a presentation made by the author at the AppraisalPort Conference in Washington, D.C. in August 2007.

Change has defined the status quo for virtually all business and organizational structures in recent years, and the real estate and appraisal industry are the focal points for changes that are ongoing within the financial services and informational service sectors of the economy. The valuation segment of real estate is the critical driver to understanding the marketplace, and how profound the changes could ultimately be. Lenders rely on collateral valuation to quantify risk and to hedge potential losses. If real estate has...
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How Technology Should Drive Your Business

By Todd Lunsford

Technology versus innovation: Technology represents the deployment of tools and resources to improve existing processes. Innovation represents the ability of a team of people close to a business to... [Read On]

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AVM Testing: A Crash Course in Best Practices

By Lee Kennedy

What does AVM testing generally entail?

Good testing requires several key steps. First, testers must find a source of clean data to be tested. The industry-accepted practice is to...
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