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MISMO updates PaVS procurement dataset for UAD 3.6

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MISMO, the real estate finance industry’s standards organization, released an update to its Property and Valuation Services (PaVS) Procurement Dataset Specification on Tuesday, aiming to modernize how valuation services are ordered across the mortgage ecosystem. The updated specification replaces legacy form-based ordering with a standardized, data-driven framework for exchanging valuation service orders. It is designed […]

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Class Valuation adds Makena InstaPlan ahead of UAD 3.6 shift

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Class Valuation has partnered with Makena to provide appraisers with new mobile data-collection tools ahead of the mortgage industry’s transition to the Uniform Appraisal Dataset (UAD) 3.6 standards later this year. The appraisal management company announced last week that appraisers working through Class Valuation will gain access to InstaPlan, Makena’s mobile property data collection and

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Mortgage vendors face consolidation as compliance costs rise

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Mortgage vendors are entering a new phase of consolidation as they respond to rising regulatory and cybersecurity pressures, according to a white paper released this week by investment banking firm Houlihan Lokey. Scale is also becoming a decisive advantage for companies that sell mortgage technology and services, a trend that follows a mergers-and-acquisition wave among

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Broker Public Portal, RPR bring valuation data to Cribio platform

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Broker Public Portal (BPP) and Realtors Property Resource (RPR) have announced a new collaboration that will integrate RPR’s Realtors Valuation Model into BPP’s Cribio consumer home search experience for participating MLSs and associations. Under the agreement, MLSs and associations partnered with BPP may authorize the display of Realtors Valuation Model values on eligible off-market properties

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The appraisal gap in 2026

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Real estate valuations have customarily leaned heavily on historical data as one of the most important factors used to determine the appraised value of homes. This data includes comparable transactions and cap rates from prior years, along with historical real estate market data. However, there are a few areas that the past-anchored valuation system fails

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PAM appraisal platform targets AMC fees, seeks to give lenders more control

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A new appraisal management platform is aiming to upend the traditional role of appraisal management companies (AMCs) by allowing mortgage lenders to oversee the process internally while maintaining regulatory compliance. The platform, known as PAM, or Private Asset & Management Group LLC, is designed as a web-based system that enables lenders to manage appraisal workflows

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NAREB president calls for ‘optimistic underwriting’ to expand homeownership

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Ashley Thomas III has assumed the presidency of the National Association of Real Estate Brokers (NAREB) — the nation’s oldest and largest Black real estate organization — with an agenda focused on expanding homeownership access. Thomas, a housing policy and wealth equity strategist with more than 25 years of experience across real estate, lending and

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Corcoran Reverie, Housify form luxury valuation partnership

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Florida-based Corcoran Reverie has announced an exclusive partnership with property valuation and analytics platform Housify. The platform draws on more than 15 years of transactional data, market trends and proprietary engineering to produce highly localized property valuations. Housify’s system analyzes multiple data sources — including local MLS information, county GIS records and property appraiser data

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Jim Park on appraisal workforce shortage and regulatory shifts

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The U.S. appraisal industry is facing a myriad of issues: a workforce shortage, rising regulatory scrutiny and new technology requirements that could reshape the profession altogether. Jim Park, the president and CEO of Collateral Risk Network and a certified general appraiser, spoke with HousingWire about the challenges facing the industry. He spoke about the declining

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Class Valuation hires Daniel Busch as CFO

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Real estate appraisal management company Class Valuation announced Wednesday that Daniel A. Busch has joined the company as its chief financial officer. Busch, who brings more than two decades of financial leadership experience to the role, most recently served as CFO of Continental Services, a private equity-backed provider of food service management solutions operating across

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