Category: Appraisals

Value chain growing pains?

8 July, 2009 (10:00) | Appraisals, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, GSEs, Housing Finance, Innovations, Markets, Subprime, US News, Value Chain | 2 comments

You’ve got to try harder

In the aftermath of the subprime meltdown, fingers are being pointed every which way, among them at the appraisal community, which led to a systemic change brought about by new York’s aggressive Attorney General, Andrew Cuomo, who pressured the GSEs into an agreement about which [...]

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 [...]

Driving through the rear-view mirror: Part 1, info under the influence

23 June, 2009 (09:55) | Appraisals, Fannie Mae, Housing Finance, Innovations, Subprime, US News, Value Chain | No comments

As sensory creatures, all we ever perceive is the past, because every signal comes to us after the event which it reports.

All we know is what’s behind us

Our brains reinterpret this flurry of pass information into a seamless present, which works beautifully except when reporting cycles are misaligned, [...]