Eli
Elite Member
- Joined
- May 12, 2007
- Professional Status
- Certified General Appraiser
- State
- Tennessee
Maybe some find valor in having suffered through all of that. For me, I was very happy to take my toys and apply them in a different segment of this industry.
I'm glad we all came together for this one. I got an email from appraisalbuzz, mel black, all of the educator schools, software providers, the AI, and from every state PAC.
We all have been contacting our senators and legislators on this subject on hybrid appraisals and how avms may replace 60,000 appraisers.
HA. THEN I WOKE UP......
Well I take some of it back?
Just got this email:
https://www.appraisalinstitute.org/...singcreditunionadministrationsproposedaction/
Appraisal Institute Joins 17 Groups Opposing Credit Union Administration’s Proposed Action
CHICAGO (Dec. 4, 2018) – The nation’s largest professional association of real estate appraisers joined 17 other organizations Monday in saying it “strongly opposed” the National Credit Union Administration’s plan to reduce the number of non-residential real estate loans requiring appraisals.
The Appraisal Institute said it opposed the NCUA’s proposal to quadruple – from $250,000 to $1 million – the appraisal threshold for non-residential real estate loans. The appraisal threshold is the loan amount below which appraisals are not required. Increasing the threshold would drastically increase the number of non-residential real estate loans that would not require an appraisal.
Saying it was “deeply concerned,” the Appraisal Institute’s letter cautioned the NCUA that its proposal could recreate conditions that led to the housing market meltdown of the late 2000s. “The proposed rule is written purely through the lens of regulatory relief – not safety and soundness. It ignores the fact that the United States suffered through a financial crisis less than a decade ago,” the letter said. “If anything, the current market conditions beg for heightened due diligence by regulated institutions today – not a loosening of a fundamental risk management activity. “
Great that AI took a stand for it's Commercial Members. "non-residential real estate loans requiring appraisals."
Below from the Ann O Rourke email- not a political issue, lol.
Proposed appraisal threshold increases keep coming - both residential and commercial !!
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House Republicans Push to Ease Property Appraisal Rules Before Giving Democrats Control
Verification of Real Estate Values Would Drop by More Than Half Under Proposal
Source: Costar
Excerpts:
Republicans in Congress and U.S. financial regulators are proposing to ease appraisal rules for real estate sales financed by credit unions, prompting critics to warn the move could recreate some conditions that fueled the financial crisis more than a decade ago.
The proposals are part of a larger push by the Republican leadership in the House, which will hand over control to the Democrats next month, to roll back financial industry regulations while the GOP is still in charge in that chamber. The National Credit Union Administration is accepting comments until midnight on Monday on its plan to increase the threshold for nonresidential sales to $1 million, which it said would boost the portion of sales not requiring an appraisal to two-thirds of all transactions from 27 percent. About 210,000 commercial property transactions were valued at $1 million or less in 2017, according to CoStar data.