The Estate Appraisals New York Under Fire Again

By Ronald Wallace


Are you in the place of "what happened" when it comes to your home, its value, and equity? Have you recently applied for a simple re-finance or buyers loan and been refused, even though you have no troubles financially? If so, you're not alone. While value is always relative, understanding the current market valuation process and how the lenders and the government work in today's real manor market can help you decipher what's going on. The following article penetrates through what happened and why you got turned down for a loan estate appraisals New York.

The rationale for the invention and widespread use of AVMs was lower cost and greater speed that a traditional human generated appraisal. This is reasonable provided that the AVM product does indeed deliver this. There is no question that AVMs are much faster. They generate a report in a matter of seconds. But as in every other form of computation, the old axiom of "garbage in garbage out" applies and the sales information used by AVMs is often scattered or unreliable.

An AVM would not be suitable in the case where the subject home is customized. That is it located in an area with considerable variation, where the home is in a level of condition. AVMs have their place in the real estate industry but so do humans and AVMs have been cited as a good reason to get rid of traditional appraisals.

One criticism of traditional human evaluations is that they are not a "value-added" product, meaning that an evaluation report does not add any monetary value to a transaction in dollars and cents. But appraisals were never intended to add anything to a transaction in that way, any more than a regulation does. The value of the assessment lies deeper than the numbers on a closing statement.

Real estate appraisers are traditionally independent contractors/business people - no appraisals = no money. So while you are paying a relatively standard one-time fee (e. G. 400 dollars), they have to make sure they get as many appraisals in as they can to make any profit at all. How's that? After all, they've got your 400 dollars.

HVCC and the Law of Good Intentions: To help us all the government saw the problem as the appraised value of the properties not loan practices as the next big piece of the problem. They got attached to the New York Attorney General's Andrew Cuomo's "Covering Assessment Cypher of Conduct". This transformed appraisal practices with the determined of educating the present housing market.

Essentially, the top of the food chain (banks) got billions for bailouts and bonuses and at the bottom end, small business, fee-based independent appraisers got higher costs, reduced fees bewildering regulations and reduced business. It is estimated that tens of thousands of consumers have already been denied their opportunity to enjoy historically low rates. This is a classic example of the Law of Good Intentions - something is done in the right spirit that sadly backfires.

As the traffic cop, the assessment is a filter that things pass through to weed out problems. The advent of a large number of assessments coming in below sales prices tells us that something is wrong in the markets and that the system is not working. Chaos is developing, or perhaps hyperinflation is causing prices to accelerate too rapidly. The assessments are telling us things are out of control.




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