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 ...

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?

From what we hear and see about the appraisal profession, it would appear that a real estate appraisal should be a very accurate measurement of the worth of a property and that the property only has ...

Unrealistic commercial property valuations were at the heart of the recent economic crisis, and a recent study cited by the New York Times points the blame to appraisers rather than overly eager real ...

Columns share an author’s personal perspective. Reader Question: Today, we have fantastic technology. We have companies using algorithms that evaluate homes without even walking through the house. Yet ...

Starwood Capital Group made a big bet on the U.S. retail market in November 2013. Barry Sternlicht’s private equity firm bought a 90 percent stake in seven malls from Westfield Group for $1.6 billion ...

The Appraisal Foundation called its exposure draft the “most extensive reconsideration” of appraiser qualification criteria ...

It’s a story many of us have heard before. A colleague who has devoted years — sometimes decades — to a career suddenly ...