Recently added articles from Valuation Insights & Perspectives:
Getting back to work and going digital.(behind the scenes)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Judging by the e-mails I have received since the last Valuation appeared, the largest two issues facing appraisers today are the Home Valuation Code of Conduct and the online version of the magazine, Digital Valuation. In equal measure, I have received e-mails that laud and decry them ...
Daring to walk on the moon.(on point)
Jun 22, 2009; ... In May 1961, President John F. Kennedy famously announced: "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth." We achieved that goal, and 40 years after Neil Armstrong first ...
Appraisal Institute to UN: worldwide valuation standards needed.(Industry Headlines)
Jun 22, 2009 ... Addressing the need for transparency and account ability in the worldwide valuation profession, the Appraisal Institute has called for uniform valuation standards to advance professionalism. At a June 4 gathering of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe meeting in Rome, ...
State AGs can pursue national banks; appraisal implications possible.(Industry Headlines)
Jun 22, 2009 ... In a landmark 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that state attorneys general can pursue national banks that have allegedly broken state laws. The decision enhances the authority of states in relation to federal financial regulators. Banking groups and the Office of the Comptroller of ...
Senate grills Judge Sotomayor on controversial property rights legislation.(Industry Headlines)
Jun 22, 2009 ... During the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Sonia Sotomayor, both the controversial Supreme Court 2005 ruling reached in Kelo v. City of New London and Sotomayor's own ruling in the controversial Didden v. Village of Port Chester came up. In a 5-4 ruling in Kelo v ....