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Appraisal practice and business
Articles on running an appraisal business: workflow, fees, clients and professional practice.
Dallas County's two housing markets: six years of sales, rents and the signals now
Six years of Dallas County sales and rents. Top-tier homes kept gaining, entry-level homes sit below the 2022 peak, and concessions and FHA loans cluster there.
Highland Park, mapped: 22 years of sales and what a modern market analysis can show
Every Highland Park, Texas, home sale since 2005 as heat maps, a quality-adjusted price index, street rankings and value drivers for appraisers.
Same lake, different markets: mapping waterfront value on Lake Ray Hubbard
Explore lakefront price patterns, AI-assisted comparable searches and interactive maps that help appraisers explain why frontage values differ.
How appraisers value short-term rentals in 2026
Appraisers split an STR’s value into real estate, furniture and business. No standard prices those pieces, and Fannie’s new rule leaves the STR math to lenders.
Stable on paper: what Plano’s leading indicators show that a checkbox cannot
Two years of Plano MLS data for collateral risk teams: supply, concessions, price cuts, failed listings and a price index behind a stable checkbox.
Solar at the closing table: who owns the panels, and what are they worth?
How solar ownership, leases, PPAs, solar loans and market evidence affect a home sale, mortgage underwriting and the appraisal, with Fannie Mae’s rules.
The appraisal, rebuilt for the screen: a commercial narrative report as a web page
An anonymized narrative appraisal of a development site, rebuilt section by section as a web report: values first, each figure linked to its evidence.
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