Before lenders will loan on a property, they usually want an appraisal to assure them that the property is worth what the buyer is offering to pay. However, the backlog in the appraisal industry, as a ...

Your home is on the market. You found buyers, a nice young couple just starting out, and they’re sold on the home. But wait — there’s one more person you have to sell: the appraiser. You can no longer ...

It’s a familiar scenario. The manager dreads writing employee performance reviews, and not just because they take up time. Hoping to be thought of as a good person, the manager sidesteps uncomfortable ...

His 16 years as property appraiser have been trouble free. County commissioners, congressional representatives and real estate agents gush with praise for Mike Wells, whose heap of endorsements have ...

It requires an expert to identify gemstones, since different gem varieties can look quite similar. It is not always easy to tell a sapphire from a tanzanite, or an aquamarine from a blue topaz, for ...

The vacant three-story rowhouse at 211 N. Montford Ave. was typical of many in Baltimore. Aged. Sagging. A house with problems in a struggling neighborhood. So when G. Samson Ugorji, a Baltimore ...

After a crackdown on tax breaks for affordable housing developers threatened to cost him his job, Bexar County Chief Appraiser Michael Amezquita appears to have shored up support on the agency's board ...

Longtime Douglas County Appraiser Marion Johnson will retire this summer — leaving behind a job that he said he enjoyed, even if county residents didn’t always enjoy the news he had to deliver. “I ...