Splitero reports that automated valuation models (AVMs) quickly estimate property values using data, offering speed and ...

The average real estate appraiser makes around $90,000 annually, and it’s an excellent career for a detail-oriented person intrigued by “solving the puzzle” of property value. In this guide, I’ll ...

Q: I think you're doing a disservice to your readers concerning listing your home with real estate agents. The best thing a homeowner/seller can do is spend the $350 or $450 and get an appraisal on ...

An appraisal of your home is usually made by a neutral, independent professional to determine a fair market price of your home based on sales of similar properties within the past three months, or ...

Should a bank be allowed to use its own staff to value properties if it believes that there aren’t enough appraisers in its market to meet demand or that outside appraisals have become too costly?

When the housing bubble burst and the recession hit, real estate became an industry to exit, and exit quickly. Home values may not have fully recovered, but those assigning those values are making a ...

Reader Question: Why do appraisals use comparative analysis as a means for valuing a home? This approach is flawed as most of the time they do not take into consideration the upgrades one has made in ...

When does "market value" not mean market value? When does the "value" as in "loan to value" mean something less than the bank thought it did? And how would your bank fare if the business value were ...