Posted by Jonathan J. Miller -Tuesday, March 13, 2012, 6:30 AM
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A commercial appraiser I know passed along this press release from Bradford Technologies. We liked and used their MacAppraiser software back in the day when they were known as Bradford & Robbins and supported Macs. No disrespect meant to them specifically – I am referring to the state of the broader mortgage lending industry and their use and interaction with appraisers.
How on earth can the mortgage industry, who has successfully pushed the professional appraiser away from valuations through the use of appraisal management companies (who are more about bulk and cheap) than about professional quality, unleash a regression tool on the appraisal masses? Yes they will take a class or two to learn it, but this is way above the average skill set. The appraisal industry is still struggling with the selection of comparable sales.
Here are a few observations on this made by others on an advanced product like this:
This is just what the by-the-book residential appraiser ordered: a statistically supported valuation! A regression analysis that inputs all those hard to define variables like driving distance to a Starbucks, or economic conditions in Uzbekistan. We commercial appraisers have been stuffing reports with this garbage for years and look how much it has done for the reasonableness of our estimates.
…you can cut your overhead and staff…and sleep well at night-no doubt this is geared to the banking industry that will repeat all the mistakes of the past once the new generation of lending mavens is ensconced and they settle into their quota of what they have to lend for their P&L bonus pool (that’s the real regression analysis)
I have likened it to giving an appraiser a loaded gun.
Ok, got it?
BRADFORD TECHNOLOGIES BRINGS REGRESSION ANALYSIS TO RESIDENTIAL APPRAISALS [Working RE]
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