Six federal regulators recently issued a final rule setting requirements for state registration and supervision of appraisal management companies (AMCs). AMCs are entities that contract with and ...

Lately, appraisal management companies (AMCs) have been in the news. In fact, few people had heard of AMCs until recently. Perhaps that is because they are business-to-business entities, usually not ...

Much of the current day rhetoric about AMCs and "review appraisals" revolves around a contention that a "review of an appraisal report" and a "review appraisal" are one in the same thing. Comments in ...

Late last month, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which oversees Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac published this “Working Paper” by their economists, Jessica Shui and Shriya Murthy. Here’s the short ...

The CFPB along with five other federal agencies have issued a final rule that establishes minimum state registration and substantive requirements for appraisal management companies (AMCs), as required ...

Before heading to Wisconsin for a few days, over the weekend I called The Bellagio to find out the betting lines on the PATH Act, Johnson-Crapo, Corker-Warner, and now Maxine Waters' lender co-op bill ...

Appraisal Logistics (ALS) has announced that it will license AIMPort, its proprietary technology platform, to lenders who want to manage some or all of their own appraisal process as well as to other ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Over the past several years, we’ve seen homes sell for unheard of prices due to a shortage ...

The world’s population has grown to nearly 8 billion from roughly 2.5 billion in 1950. With this growth has come the demand for housing, especially in the United States, as 70+ million people in their ...

Since May 1 homebuyers who took out a mortgage (or those getting a refinance) have been subject to the now-infamous Home Valuation Code of Conduct (known as the HVCC). This code is not actually a law ...

The CFPB along with five other federal agencies have issued a final rule that establishes minimum state registration and substantive requirements for appraisal management companies (AMCs), as required ...