Traditionally, appraisal reviews have required lenders to have a team of underwriters in place to manually review data to ensure accuracy and completeness. This process is time-consuming and the use ...

Property taxes are a red-hot topic this summer across Texas. More than 20 related bills have been filed for the Texas Legislature's special session. Efforts to legislate tighter limits on how local ...

Performance appraisal systems help employees know what's expected of them and management know whether or not workers are meeting their goals. These measuring sticks falter, however when they raise ...

A recent article in Governing explored how “local governments are changing the frequency of performance evaluations, who receives them and what they're assessing.” To me, this is definitely a good ...

Does an outdated and sluggish appraisal system give an outsized advantage to cash buyers? A recent panel discussion sponsored by the Urban Institute (UI) led to that conclusion. Four experts gathered ...

After an owner starts a company, the next job is to hire employees and get them to share the dream as they work together to build a business. One part of that process is to set company goals and ...

The Federal Housing Administration fully automated the second-appraisal process for reverse mortgage lenders on Friday, a move it had promised would come by December 1st. In September, the agency ...

There are two ways to make the home loan market much more efficient by empowering borrowers. The first is to authorize borrowers to order their own appraisals. The second, which will be discussed next ...

FIGURE HEAD: Buncombe County Tax Assessor Keith Miller will lead an $844,000 effort through the next fiscal year to improve the county's tax appraisal process. Photo courtesy of Buncombe County ...

Thanks to an amendment added by Rep. Otto to HB 3249, the Texas Board of Tax Professional Examiners (BTPE) will undergo review by the Sunset Advisory Commission in 2009, rather than 2015. The Sunset ...

It didn’t take long for new Tarrant Appraisal District board members to make their mark on how the district handles property appraisals. On Monday, during the first official meeting since the historic ...