H1: UAD 3.6: Blessing or Bother? A Practical Guide for Residential Appraisers Rollout begins September 8, 2025. Whether UAD 3.6 is a blessing or a bother depends on your practice focus. If you live on the GSE side of the house, mastering the nuances is unavoidable—and worth your time. If your work leans to estates, […]
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What does your signature mean? In real estate appraisal, ethics (i.e., USPAP) and public trust form the foundation of professional credibility. This episode of The Appraiser’s Advocate emphasizes the critical importance of an appraiser’s signature, which represents not only an opinion of value but also a solemn pledge of honesty, objectivity, and compliance with the
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Why are there among our Fellows who conclude the new UAD3.6 is a terror? It may be that it is a change from what we already know, and everybody (not just appraisers) fear changes. Or maybe it is because this will require appraisers to learn a new “language”. After all, what currently works in report
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What’s wrong with the supervisor/trainee model? Nothing, other than it does not work. Outside of that small limitation, it is entirely viable. So, really, despite the fact that model is as old as dirt, what’s wrong with it? If it does not work, why did the appraisal industry implement it in the first place? Is
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What does appraisal’s future hold? This is a question that comes in all the time. Since it comes in all the time, and time is dynamic, so is the answer to the question. Simply, we cannot have the assurance of a yes or no answer. There are too many variables to account for. There are
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The reconsideration of value is a formal process. In the Fannie Mae Selling Guide are the guidelines that allows a lender or borrower to request a review of an appraisal when relevant new information may affect the value opinion. This isn’t about disagreeing with the appraiser’s judgment. It’s about presenting factual, material data—such as
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USPAP, SR1-6, and Reconciliation are central to producing a credible opinion of value in any real estate appraisal report. The 2024 Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP) emphasizes that reconciliation is not just a procedural formality—it is an essential component of value development. According to USPAP’s Standard Rule 1-6(a), appraisers must reconcile the quality
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DOES REAL ESTATE APPRAISAL HAVE A FUTURE? Does real estate appraisal have a future? This question comes in to me all the time. And it’s important! We’ve invested a lot of time and money to become appraisers. Did we waste all that? There are some who say yes to that question. Generally, they point out
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USPAP, Verification, and Bernoulli’s Fallacy. That’s a mouthful! What does it mean? I’m assuming you’ve heard of USPAP. Verification is an important component of USPAP’s SR1-4 (learn it, love it, use it). But it is likely Bernoulli’s Fallacy is something you don’t know about. Yet. You will, though. It is going to become really important
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Having trouble choosing comps? Tim Andersen, the Appraiser’s Advocate explains one possible model in this podcast.
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