Date: June 24th, 2009

Driving through the rear-view mirror: Part 2, info over the transom

24 June, 2009 (09:39) | Appraisals, Fannie Mae, Housing Finance, Innovations, Subprime, US News, Value Chain | No comments

[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]

In yesterday’s exploration of the changing appraisal world, using an interesting Wall Street Journal article, we’d identified the intrinsic challenge of appraisal – having to simulate a forward-looking market by using exclusively backward-looking evidence from past sales. Called upon to appraise a pending sale, the [...]