Fresh off the plane from Seattle, we’re breaking down the biggest moments from this year’s Appraisers Conference and Trade Show (ACTS). From packed sessions on UAD 3.6 to the conversations shaping the ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) will never be your most powerful tool for real estate appraisal. With all of the rapid ...

Staff vs. fee panel. It’s one of the longest-running debates in appraisal history, and today we’re going to address it. Hal is joined by Todd Rasmussen of MARRCH Valuations to break down the staff ...

Most appraisal reports that I read contain language such as, “the appraiser (or your appraiser) has inspected the subject property” or “the appraiser (or your appraiser) has analyzed the available ...

As we rounded out 2025, we put out a call for nominations for our second inaugural Buzzy Awards. We wanted to once again recognize appraisers across the nation who are innovators, champions of their ...

How the Profession Learned to Watch the Calendar If you’ve been in the appraisal profession long enough, you don’t measure time by years—you measure it by changes. You remember where you were when ...

This article was reposted with permission from Chase Pursley. See original article here. Using data from the Appraisal Subcommittee’s (ASC) Federal Registry, we’ve analyzed the licensing of real ...

For decades, residential real estate appraisers have relied on clipboards, graph paper, tape measures and glue sticks to appraise homes. Site visits involved hand-written notes, manual measurements ...

Industry leaders converged in Denver Colorado last week to discuss some of the changes coming to the industry. Some major announcements were made and there was a lot of discussion on what is to come ...

As the way we all do business continues to evolve, help support the digital transformation of the industry and become a hybrid appraiser. Appraisers that join the hybrid appraisal panel with Radian ...

Measuring and analyzing changes in market conditions are critical and fundamental elements in real estate appraisal. Indeed, they are the foundation of an accurate opinion of value. This is simply ...

This is a continuation of the April 15, 2024 article “From Forms to Reports: A Look at the UAD Overhaul” I am named after my father, who passed away in 2000. Dad was an SRA who brought me into the ...