Schedule

This session examines what truly separates the best appraisers from the rest not technical skill alone, but ethics, judgment, and professional trust.

This session offers a long-horizon perspective on appraisal as a profession why it continues to matter, why it remains a viable and meaningful career, and why someone deeply immersed in standards, qualifications, and industry evolution would choose it again.

This session reframes the role of the appraiser in an environment where data, models, and automated insights are increasingly abundant.

This session explores how appraisers can turn referrals into a consistent source of private and non-lender business. It focuses on how trusted relationships, visibility, and follow-through can create a stronger pipeline of work beyond traditional lender channels.

This demo shows how Appraise-It Pro is used in day-to-day appraisal production with an emphasis onreliability, form accuracy, and appraiser-driven workflow.

The goal is to give attendees a realistic view of how SFREP’s platform supports residential appraisers whovalue stability, standards alignment, and software designed around how appraisers actually work.

This workshop gives real estate agents a repeatable, evidence-based pricing system they can use consistently across listings, regardless of market conditions.

This session introduces personal property valuation as a practical and increasingly relevant diversification path for residential real estate appraisers.

This session explores what a modern appraisal firm actually looks like as the industry moves toward 2027 and how firms are adapting their operations, staffing, and workflows under UAD3.6.

This session provides an unfiltered look at what actually happens after certification, the part of the career path that is often glossed over.

This session focuses on what UAD 3.6 means in practice, not in theory, and how appraisers can prepare now to avoid workflow disruption and costly errors as implementation continues toward 2027.

As The Appraisal Foundation approaches its 40th anniversary in 2027, this Main Stage session looks forward examining where valuation is headed as industry structures evolve and artificial intelligence accelerates change.

This Main Stage conversation is designed to set the factual and professional foundation for the entire conference.

Before conversations about regulation, technology, AI, or the future of valuation, this session addresses the most pressing question facing appraisers and real estate professionals today:

What is actually happening in housing right now and what does it mean for the appraisal profession going forward?

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As the housing market moves into 2026, valuation professionals face shifting transaction volume, evolving price dynamics, regional divergence, constrained supply, and continued growth in appraisal waiver usage.

This data-driven market update will provide a grounded analysis of national and regional housing trends, exploring what is changing, what is stabilizing, and what may present new risk or opportunity for valuation professionals.

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This  session explores how new construction is evolving and why those changes matter for valuation professionals.

This session examines how major U.S. cities are rethinking zoning as a tool to address housing affordability and how those changes are likely to reshape neighborhoods and property values over time.

This session explores how structured appraisal data and evolving reporting formats, including UAD 3.6, may influence quality control and review workflows. Drawing from extensive review experience, the discussion highlights recurring USPAP compliance gaps and reporting patterns that consistently create revision risk, and examines how a more structured format may surface these issues more clearly.

This session provides a practical, experience-based roadmap for residential appraisers who want to reduce reliance on lender work and build a sustainable private-client practice.

This session introduces the appraisal profession to people who are curious about valuation as a career but don’t yet understand what appraisers actually do or why the role matters.

This is not a theoretical AI talk. This is a live, step-by-step build session where appraisers see exactly how a functional AI agent is deployed for real appraisal workflows.

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This session provides a practical, step-by-step introduction to using AI in appraisal work, designed specifically for appraisers who want to get started without technical overwhelm or unrealistic promises.

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This session goes beyond traditional comparable selection to explore how experienced professionals price properties accurately in competitive, fast-moving, and emotionally charged markets.

This session creates space for appraisers to compare real-world experiences with UAD 3.6, focusing on what is most confusing, time-consuming, or difficult in practice.

This session explains the desktop and hybrid segment of the valuation market in practical terms, what it is, how it works, and what appraisers need to succeed in it.

This session provides real estate appraisers with a clear, practical foundation for serving as effective expert witnesses in legal proceedings.

This session uses real-world pricing scenarios to help agents sharpen judgment, not just learn rules.

This session introduces real estate investing from the perspective of an appraiser, focusing on practical, low-friction ways to get started without overextending capital, time, or risk.

This session explores what the next generation of valuation and appraisers will look like as the profession moves into the 2030s, not from theory, but from lived experience across practice, technology, and regulation.

This session provides a clear, first-hand look at what it’s actually like to work as a commercial real estate appraiser, from early career entry to senior leadership within a global valuation platform.

This session provides a clear, practical explanation of PAREA (Practical Applications of Real Estate Appraisal), what it is, why it exists, and how it fits into the future of appraisal education and entry pathways.

This session introduces the field of personal property valuation in clear, practical terms, what it includes, where it is used, and how professionals actually practice within it day to day.

This session explains how modern appraisal forms and data standards came to be, why UAD was created, what problems it was designed to solve, and how those decisions shaped today’s appraisal environment.

This session gives real estate agents practical, real-world guidance on how FHA condition issues are identified, documented, and reviewed, so they can better anticipate problems, set expectations with sellers and buyers, and avoid preventable delays at underwriting.

This demo shows how True Footage is used to capture, verify, and manage property measurements in a way that improves consistency, reduces revision risk, and supports scalable appraisal operations.

This session provides a clear, realistic introduction to commercial valuation for appraisers who are curious about the space but unsure where or how to begin.

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UAD 3.6 is not just a format update, it fundamentally changes how appraisal data is structured, interpreted, and reviewed. This session provides a practical, reviewer-grounded look at how appraisal review evolves in a UAD 3.6 environment, and what that means for appraisal quality, consistency, and defensibility.

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This session explores insurance appraisals as a specialized valuation discipline and examines how errors in method, scope, and review can create meaningful portfolio risk. It is designed to help lenders, valuation professionals, and review stakeholders better understand how insurance appraisals should be developed, evaluated, and used in practice.

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This session focuses on one of the most important, and most misunderstood, growth decisions for appraisal firm owners: hiring a first operations manager.

This session provides a practical playbook for improving the working relationship between real estate agents and appraisers, grounded in mutual understanding, realistic expectations, and professional communication.

This session introduces valuation professionals to computer vision as a practical, emergingcomponent of modern appraisal workflows, moving beyond theory to real-world application

This isn’t the usual “upgrade your website,” “set up a Google Business Profile,” or “use AI for social media” marketing talk. This session provides a practitioner-led, no-fluff look at what appraisal offices need to be doing to market themselves effectively.

This session showcases real, working examples of how modern appraisers are innovating inside their practices, not by abandoning standards, but by rethinking how work gets done, how services are positioned, and how time and judgment are protected.

This session introduces appraisers to the fundamentals of effective marketing , not from an advertising or hype-driven perspective, but from a clarity and positioning standpoint.

This Main Stage session examines how litigation, enforcement actions, and emerging case laware reshaping the risk landscape for appraisers and appraisal management companies.

This demo shows how AIVRE applies AI to support appraisal workflows, helping appraisers organize data, surface insights, and reduce friction, without automating value conclusions or replacing professional judgment.

This session walks aspiring appraisers through the real-world lifecycle of an appraisal assignment from engagement and scope of work to analysis, reporting, and final delivery. It clarifies how each step connects to risk management, lending decisions, and market stability, while highlighting the professional judgment and independence required throughout the process.

This demo showcases how NightHawk represents a structural shift in appraisal reporting, moving beyond traditional forms-based workflows to a modern, analysis-first approach where the appraisal report is automatically generated from the appraiser’s inputs, reasoning, and conclusions.

This session provides a practical look at how appraisal compliance, quality control, and risk oversight actually function in modern lending and appraisal environments.

This Main Stage session examines how state appraiser coalitions are evolving and why theirrole is becoming more important in a changing regulatory, market, and professional environment.

This session brings together three institutional perspectives shaping the future of residential appraisal practice to examine the responsible role of artificial intelligence today.

As AI tools become more visible across valuation workflows, appraisers face uncertainty around expectations, limits, and professional risk. This panel grounds the conversation by addressing AI through the lenses of practice oversight, standards and ethics, and housing finance policy.

This session recognizes that AI is already being used in various parts of the valuation process and focuses on how appraisers should respond right now as AI becomes part of the valuation ecosystem.

This session provides appraisers with a clear, repeatable framework for handling Reconsiderations of Value (ROVs) in today’s lending environment without becoming reactive, compromising independence, or increasing compliance risk.

This session introduces appraisers to the relocation appraisal segment, a specialized area of residential valuation work with distinct client expectations, review standards, and workflow norms.

This Main Stage session cuts through the noise surrounding artificial intelligence in valuation and focuses on how appraisers are actually using AI today and how that usage is likely to evolve over the next several years.

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This session introduces appraisers to the realities of valuing luxury residential property, how it differs from typical residential appraisal work and what it takes to do it competently and credibly.

This session explains how pre-listing and pre-purchase appraisals can be added to an appraisal practice as a practical, defensible, and repeatable revenue stream.

This session provides a clear, current view of exclusive inventory, what it is, how it is evolving, and why it matters for valuation and real estate practice.

This session explores how property ownership models are changing and what those changes could mean for valuation professionals.

This session shows appraisers how to use market analytics intentionally to support trends, segmentation, and conclusions in UAD 3.6–compliant appraisal reports.

This session provides an insider’s perspective on the FIVA Network and its growing role in connecting valuation professionals across borders, standards, and market realities.

This session examines what it actually looks like for an appraiser to integrate report writing and valuation support into their day-to-day practice.

This session focuses on best practices for developing credible as-is and as-repaired valuations for REO properties, where value conclusions directly inform asset management, repair strategy, pricing, and disposition decisions.

This session focuses on how appraisers can use market analytics to support adjustments that are both credible and defensible.

This session opens the “black box” behind modern appraisal technology platforms to explain how AI actually functions under the hood, beyond marketing language and surface-level features.

This session introduces real estate appraisers to the field of business valuation in clear, practical terms, what it is, where it is used, and how professionals actually practice within it.

This session provides real estate appraisers with a practical, standards-grounded introduction to valuing and auditing energy-efficient and “green” properties with confidence and credibility.

This session provides appraisers with a clear, practical foundation for estate valuation work, one of the most common and highest-risk private appraisal assignments.

This session gives appraisers a practical, start-to-finish framework for handling divorce-related valuation assignments in a way that is clear, neutral, and defensible.

This session introduces appraisers to litigation support and expert testimony by clarifying what makes legal-facing valuation work fundamentally different from typical lending assignments and what it takes to be credible when your analysis is challenged directly.

This session explains why valuation remains a foundational pillar of the modern mortgage lending system and clarifies the critical role appraisers play within that system from Fannie Mae’s perspective.

This session gives appraisers and aspiring appraisers a transparent look at what valuation firms actually look for when hiring beyond licenses, designations, or years of experience.

This session provides a candid, current look at what it means to be a commercial appraiser today, inside large, institutional valuation platforms serving debt and equity clients at scale.

This session explains how appraiser licensing and regulation work from the perspective of a state regulator with a focus on how someone actually becomes an appraiser.

This session introduces business valuation as a profession and career path through the lens of a practitioner who has spent decades doing the work—and then stepped back to help others build successful valuation practices.

This session distills nearly five decades of appraisal experience into practical, plain-spoken guidance for people just entering the profession today.

This session explains UAD 3.6 in plain English, specifically for real estate agents who need to understand how appraisal data standards affect transactions, timelines, and communication without wading through technical jargon.

This session tackles one of the most challenging areas of residential valuation: pricing properties that do not fit neatly into standard models, neighborhoods, or datasets.

This session equips agents and their clients with clear, realistic strategies for navigating transactions after an appraisal comes in below contract price.

This demo shows how DataMaster is used to dramatically reduce data entry time and errors in appraisal reporting by pulling verified MLS, public record, and market data directly into appraisal software.