Whether the real estate market is hot or cool, home buyers and sellers can get upset when the appraiser who is examining a home on behalf of the mortgage lender sets a value below the agreed-upon ...

We are trying refinance our Bed Stuy brownstone and our appraisal came back with an absurdly low number (37% less than 2006 purchase price). Property values in our section of Bed Stuy have held up ...

Dear Monty: We made a $90,000 offer on a house listed for $97,500. We were pre-qualified for more than our offer. However, when the mortgage company had the house appraised, it came in $14,000 less ...