If you’re buying a home, refinancing your mortgage, or just want to know how much your home is worth, you’re probably going to need a property appraisal. At its most basic, “an appraisal is an opinion ...

The lack of a college degree may not prevent someone from becoming a certified appraiser under new criteria proposed by the rulemaker for the country’s 65,000 valuation professionals. The potential ...

A graduate of the University of Mindanao-Davao City topped the licensure examination for real estate appraisers given earlier this month. According to the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC), 373 ...

Jennifer Nelson writes about all things money--personal finance, investing, saving, credit cards and insurance for numerous publications including AARP, Next Avenue, Credit Karma, Real SImple, Citi ...

Disarray at the small federal agency charged with overseeing the appraisal industry is raising alarm among lawmakers about the effectiveness of a critical safeguard of the infrastructure of the nation ...

The terms “appraised value” and “market value” can confuse buyers and sellers. They both refer to evaluations on your property, yet they come from two different sources and impact the homebuying ...

Problems are piling up at the Chicago-based Appraisal Institute, an influential group in the real estate industry because of its key role in property valuation. They include a sexual harassment ...

The Appraisal Institute faces concerns that one of its leaders has a history of harassing women and that it did not disclose that some certification exams were incorrectly scored. By Debra Kamin Debra ...

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 ...

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