The Appraisal Blog

The latest salvo against the appraisal industry is the introduction of the bifurcated appraisal.  Essentially, for certain loans, FNMA is splitting the appraisal process into two parts,  The field inspection and the analysis.  As such, they are having non-appraisers, conduct the physical inspections, who then provide that data to the appraiser for analysis.

Who are these data collectors?  What kind of training do they have?  What is there liability and responsibility?  In short ... I don't know...



https://www.nar.realtor/research-and-statistics/research-reports/appraisal-process-report