Insights for Appraisal Operations

Explore practical perspectives, industry trends, and expert guidance to help you improve workflows, manage vendor networks, and navigate the evolving appraisal landscape.

From compliance and workflow optimization to vendor management and technology strategy, our blog covers the topics that matter most to appraisal professionals.

Stay informed, learn from real-world experiences, and discover new ways to improve how your team operates.

Profitability and Process

Progressive financial institutions are making significant investment in technology. Those that delay don’t truly understand the efficiencies gained through implementing software solutions. …

Is that appraisal good or bad?

Does your appraisal department make mistakes? It’s embarrassing to be wrong especially if its pushback from your RM or LO. Determine…

The future is clear for those who care to look

Can you see a future where: Your appraisal department hits their SLAs.  Can you see a future where: Your appraisal firm delivers…

Is appraisal bias conclusive?

I’ve written about appraisal bias, specifically the importance of the valuation community to participate in the narrative. Regardless of how appraisers feel about the issue, it doesn’t matter. What matters…

Optimistic appraisers do better

As an appraisal department manager, why are you so worried about lender push back?   If worrying has so many drawbacks, then why do you do…

You’re hired!

“You’re hired” are words rarely spoken in the valuation space. As commercial fee appraisers or appraisers in banks, we definitely…

You’re closer now than you’ve ever been

Many of us have been creating, ordering and reviewing appraisals for years if not decades.   Are you close to the finish line of implementing workflow software that gives your…

Appraiser leadership, how’s it going?

Are you at your breaking point?  As appraiser managers or firm owners, we often work 10 hour days, but yet…

Appraiser Bias Narrative

You’ve probably have heard what happened. An interracial couple orders a residential appraisal in Jacksonville, value comes in at $330,000 for the black wife and $465,000 for the white husband….

Abundance of Caution

As a fee or bank appraiser, is your productivity lagging behind your peers? Are you stuck at a red light? …

Appraiser Mojo

“OMG, you’re an appraiser? That’s AMAZING!” I hear this all the time…no…never. But why not?   Mojo is that exact time when you…

Appraisal department overload

Appraisal departments: absolutely swamped, understaffed, not enough people on my team, overwhelmed, don’t have the time, doing a job that’s…