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Some interesting ASC licensing stats for 2025

Joe Flacco said:
The number of appraisers with 0-5 years experience is surprising.
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Yeah, like how many 150 year olds are collecting social security surprising. My guess, multi state licensees are counted two ways; State one with 15yrs experience, get licensed in a second, third, etc. and it starts/shows 0yrs experience for those. Basically, my La. License shows an initial license date of 2003, but if I get a MS license tomorrow my initial license date would be 2025. Mandatory reciprocity started under Dodd-Frank so that may explain the 45% of licenses with 10yrs or less stat. It’s the only way that stat makes sense.

Great job cpursley, very interesting and will likely be used as a reference by many for years. Any way to break down unique active appraisers the way you broke down active licenses?
 
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gregb said:
Curious why it was relevant to point out in this thread that there were old VA appraisers attending your class, with oxygen tanks and drivers presumably because they had no driver license? Did you learn anything from these experienced appraisers? Did you treat them differently in the class than a newbie licensee? The question out there is who was your preferred student?
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Back home in WV, a few years ago, my mother's doctor notified DMV that her driver's license should be closed because of her declining health status. Next day she goes out and buys a car. She would show him a thing or two!!!!
 
Yep, pretty much what I suspected. Pick one of the top ten appraisers in the blog, go to the ASC site and search the licenses. I picked Owens, several of his licenses (he has 50) can be interpreted as a licensee with 0-5 years experience.
 
Non Sequitur said:
Pretty sure I read the CA numbers are the lowest since licensing started.
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Yes 1992 but by mid 1993 i recall over
15 000 and by 2020 it was really taking off. Also most apprasers in California had 1 license because it's so large.

Imagine a State with 38 million legal citizens and less than 7,000 licenses and many too slow to make a living. Crazy...way more waivers or other valuations being used than what we have been told.
 
Non Sequitur said:
Great job cpursley, very interesting and will likely be used as a reference by many for years. Any way to break down unique active appraisers the way you broke down active licenses?
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The number of appraisers in the post are active unique appraisers +/- 3% or so due to data quality issues. Unfortunately I had to cross check across states by name as there are no unique national ids - which means potential for considering different people with same exact name as the same person.

Once I have the queries really solid, I plan on running the states yearly. Also, for anyone who knows SQL, all the code is here: https://github.com/cpursley/asc_data_2025
 
Do states just offer reciprocal license to anyone who applies? Is there some expectation that they will move to the state so they can practice here or do they look at it case by case and require some level of explanation? Like I live near the border and want to expand my work area?

I remember when I moved to 15+ years ago I had to sign some sort of affidavit that said I was moving to the state. But with the recent bastardization of the profession and the AMC and GSE push to have appraisers in California Florida signing off on reports all over the country, I can’t help but think they have bribed and threatened enough board members across the country to look the other way with this sort of thing now.
 
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