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Valuation Matters
http://valuationmatters.blogspot.com/
This blog was created to share views on major (controversial) issues and trends affecting valuation, assessment, and property taxes.
- Added on: Oct 12th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Sid Som
- Listed in: Real Estate US Economics
- Tags: mortgage avm cama property tax property valuation property assessment
Recent Posts
Should the Taxable Status Date be Forward or Backward?
While most property assessment experts are wrestling with the frequency of the assessment cycle, meaning whether properties should be assessed annually or every three years, etc., I have a completely different perspective on this issue.Proper market ...
Building Permits and Housing Starts Must Continue to Fall Through 2010-11
The statistics on new building permits and housing starts are reported monthly by the Commerce Department and are generally considered leading economic indicators. More importantly, the new permits have always helped define and lead the housing cycle...
Dynamics of Manhattan Condo Market
Since Manhattan is the financial capital of the world, its residential condo market has always been highly sought-after, locally as well as by global investors. In fact, because of its true global demand, the Manhattan condo market has consistently o...
Why Investors Should Study Price-Income Ratios to Assess Market Risk
Since home sales and household income data are easily available nowadays, the price-income ratio study has become one of the most routine top-line studies informed investors tend to undertake to ascertain the investment risk at the market level. Rece...
Health of Commercial Real Estate Loans
While there are hosts of data sources to evaluate commercial real estate in the US, the most reliable data and analyses, unquestionably, are contained in the quarterly publication titled ‘Charge-off and Delinquency Rates on Loans and Leases at Com...
How to Build a Quick MRA Model in Excel
If you need to build a quick MRA model but do not have access to a standard statistical package, try the ‘Regression’ option in Excel (\Tools\Data Analysis). While the input format is geared primarily towards the linear regression, the output opt...
