Appraisers Still Feel The Pressure To Jack Up Home Values
- Have the real estate valuation shenanigans and inflated home appraisals that characterized the boom years disappeared from the marketplace? Are mortgage loan officers and realty agents — even individual home sellers — continuing to influence or attempting to interfere with appraisals despite new federal rules that ban such behavior?
- Ask appraisers and many will tell you: It's still business as usual. Attempts at encouraging inflated appraisals continue to be commonplace, though in some cases the techniques have become subtler.
For more, see Appraisers Still Feeling Pressure.
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