Builders are nervous... this feels familiar.
Home builders are encountering rising cancellations of contracts as buyer's confidence plummets, what does this mean for the wider...
Home builders are encountering rising cancellations of contracts as buyer's confidence plummets, what does this mean for the wider...
I hear home owners relay the suggestions that they hear from other real estate professionals in their transaction on a regular basis....
A few months ago I asked appraisers how many times they round. When I saw this comic it reminded me of that post: Some rounding is...
...but have they removed it from themselves? In the lead up to 2008 their racist practices lead to the death of this renter, and...
This is a part of the series "Redlining Richmond" posted here over the last year. After the Civil War localities in the North and South...
The dirty little secret in the United States is that there is a massive oversupply of homes. There are 139 million single-family homes,...
In 2008 the world was introduced to the words "Subprime Loans." This was blamed for the housing collapse (really the issue at hand was...
Over the summer we put out a series of blogs entitled "Bubble Watch," where we defined the stages of a bubble and watched markets for...
To some, I'm sure they think that the appraisers says "Best I can do is a buck fiddy," and that's it. However, today we walk through what...
As discussed in my original blog, my history is in philosophy and maths. Today I was to explore an old philosophical paradox known as...
I occasionally get questions that are reasonable, but have a misconception at the heart of the query. Here we'll address a few of these....
On April 20, 2020,the crude oil prices dropped 306% to a low of -$37.63. This period of volatility lasted for about 18 hours before...
From CNBC On the afternoon of April 14, 2020, dozens of firefighters arrived at an Amazon warehouse in Fresno, California, as thick...
I recently got a chance to listen to the pitch of Ion Solar, and if you don't fact check anything that they say, its sounds pretty good....
Realtors regularly rank among the least trusted professions worldwide (near used car salespersons and members of congress). Stories like...
A recession is a poorly defined term, but in terms of GDP is can mean 2 consecutive quarters of decline OR a 1.5% decline in GDP OR a...
Recent accusations of racism in appraising have brought to light increasingly questionable lending practices as records have become...
Why do agents? In commercial real estate, price per square foot is a significant metric, but in residential real estate, it isn't used....
In 2021 I performed 588 appraisals - this level of exposure to the market allows me to have multiple conversations per week with...
There has been a practice among appraisers that was always a bit odd. If a property is an "illegal use" then the property can not secure...