Should a bank be allowed to use its own staff to value properties if it believes that there aren’t enough appraisers in its market to meet demand or that outside appraisals have become too costly?

The wave of bank failures in the Pacific Northwest took an ugly twist Friday when a former high-ranking executive of the defunct Bank of Clark County pleaded guilty to concealing material facts from ...

Santander Bank quietly settled a suit filed by a Connecticut couple earlier this year, which accuses the bank and the appraisal company it partnered with of low-balling the value of their property ...

TROY, MI--(Marketwired - Apr 29, 2014) - Dart Appraisal (www.DartAppraisal.com) today announced it has been named an approved Appraisal Management Company (AMC) by Flagstar Bank. As a leading provider ...

More than 80 percent of bank appraisers think reducing the number of loans requiring an appraisal could increase risk to borrowers, according to a survey of its professionals released by the Appraisal ...