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National Foreclosure Rate Down to Less Than 1 Percent From a High of 3.6 Percent This year marks a decade since the start of the housing crisis.[1]...
Loss Estimation Requires More than Hazard Science Catastrophic risk models and analytics are commonly used by the insurance, reinsurance, financial...
What you don’t know about your policy can hurt you…financially It’s often been said, “it’s better to have insurance and not need it than to n...
An Important Appraisal Question Have you ever thought about how the components of your home contribute to the age of your home? The roof, siding, t...
When homeowners think about the value of their properties they usually focus on the physical attributes of their houses and pay less attention to t...
13 Markets Overvalued Based on Fundamental and Speculative Metrics In Part I [1] of this series we evaluated the top 100 Core Based Stati...
21 Markets Overvalued Based on Fundamental Factors of Price-to-Income and Price-to-Rent Talking about housing bubbles usually raises questions, con...
Let’s ask a professional… Many aspects of building appraisal or valuation require personal judgment, but one aspect that should not be in thi...
Less Than Half Return Even 16 Years After Foreclosure Next year marks seven years since the foreclosure crisis peaked in 2010, during which enough ...
Home features that have the greatest impact on reconstruction cost Reconstruction cost, not market value or assessed value, is used by insurers to ...
How to understand the difference between these two value approaches The market value and replacement cost of a building are not the same thing. The...
