Education for Lenders
Commercial Appraisal Engagement & Review (7-Hour On-site Seminar)
Staff in financial institutions (lending and appraisal departments) who order or review commercial real estate appraisals will benefit from this seminar. Learn how the tasks of each group fit into the regulatory scheme for financial institutions and what happens to the appraisal once it leaves the appraiser’s hands. This new seminar will help you become current with the latest terminology, changing regulations and proper procedures. And, it will provide you with an overview of relevant approaches to value.
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Commercial Appraisal Engagement & Review - Other Formats
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Appraising Distressed Commercial Real Estate: Here We Go Again (7-Hour On-Site Seminar)
This timely new seminar provides critical insights to lenders on how distressed real estate will be valued in the current economic downturn. See how distressed development properties and improved commercial real estate will be analyzed. Discuss how appraisers will conduct market analysis under current conditions. Capital market impacts are explored from both a cost and availability perspective.
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Webinar Recording: Appraising Distressed Commercial Real Estate: Here We Go Again
Listen in as expert panelists weigh in on the current financial crisis, its impact on commercial real estate and the implications for commercial appraisers.
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A Lender’s Perspective: The Role of the Appraisal in the Lending Process
(2-Hour On-site Seminar)
This two-hour workshop will provide a great initial overview for many departments of a
bank or financial lending institution. It will be especially helpful for audit, credit,
compliance, quality control, quality assurance, and underwriting staff. After attending,
they will have a familiarity with fundamental Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal
Practice (USPAP) concepts, including scope of work, updates, and appraiser independence.
Appraisal Challenges: Declining Markets and Sales Concessions (7-Hour On-Site Seminar)
Anyone involved in residential real estate will benefit from this timely new seminar’s discussion on the correct use, pitfalls and procedures used in valuing residential real estate in markets shifting from appreciation to depreciation. In addition, the seminar provides the tools necessary to analyze a local market. A review of sales concessions on real estate prices is discussed in detail.
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Appraisal Challenges: Declining Markets and Sales Concessions (7-Hour Online Seminar)
The online version of Appraisal Challenges focuses on the tools necessary to analyze a local market in today's climate. In addition, the new Market Conditions form (1004MC) will be extensively covered.
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REO Appraisal–Appraisal of Residential Property for Foreclosure and Pre-foreclosure (7-Hour On-Site Seminar)
Participants will obtain the information needed to assist clients in making well-supported decisions about the final disposition of real estate acquired through foreclosure. Beginning with a look at the pre-foreclosure, foreclosure and post-foreclosure process and the role of those involved, the seminar also provides many resources that can be used to solve clients’ different dilemmas as well as formulate a proper scope of work.
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Introduction to FHA Appraising: What Appraisers Need to Know About HUD Policies, Procedures, and 2008 Roster Eligibility (7-Hour On-site Seminar)
This seminar is designed to provide appraisers as well as professionals in allied fields with the latest information on FHA policies and procedures. By the end of the seminar you will be able to identify HUD’s appraiser eligibility requirements for placement on the FHA Appraiser Roster, recognize property analysis issues for FHA appraisal, identify 12 potential hazards to consider during the neighborhood observation process, recognize HUD guidelines that address unacceptable locations, recognize property analysis issues for FHA appraisal, identify issues related to FHA’s General Acceptability Criteria, recognize HUD’s methodology for completing appraisal forms that include specific conditions for repair.
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FHA and the Appraisal Process (7-Hour Online Seminar)
As the online counterpart of Introduction to FHA Appraising, the FHA and the Appraisal Process seminar covers the latest FHA appraisal policies and procedures as well.
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Overview of Real Estate Appraisal Principles (7-hour Online Seminar)
This seminar is aimed at the non-appraiser; people who have an interest in appraising but are not technically qualified or licensed to act as appraisers. Examples are lenders, underwriters, relocation specialists, real estate brokers and others. This seminar introduces the basic economic concepts that form the building blocks of current valuation theory. These principles will be related to the actual process of appraising residential and commercial properties.
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Reviewing and Underwriting Residential Appraisal Reports (7-Hour On-site Seminar)
Especially written for the lending community, this seminar will assist the “intended user” of appraisal reports in understanding residential appraisal reports and more importantly, spot inconsistencies.
After attending this seminar, underwriters and loan professionals will be able to distinguish between small mistakes that do no impact the value conclusion and “red flags” that could severely impact the loan collateralization. Because the new Fannie Mae URAR form is the most commonly used appraisal report, this program will also focus on a line-by-line discussion of the form.
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A Lender’s Guide to the New URAR Form (4-hour On-site Seminar)
Developed for residential appraisers who wish to improve their abilities in the appraisal of residential single-unit properties when the intended use is to aid the lender/client in evaluating the loan collateral, this seminar is highly useful to lenders as well. The seminar begins with a look at how reporting formats relate to the appraisal process, with special emphasis on USPAP’s Supplemental Standards Rule, Departure Rule, and problem identification through the scope of work. The next section discusses the revised definitions, limiting conditions, and appraiser’s certification. This section is followed by a detailed comparison of the differences between the revised URAR form and its predecessor.
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