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Hybrid Appraisals: The Future of Property Valuation 

Hybrid Appraisals: The Future is Here Faster, smarter, and more efficient—hybrid appraisals are transforming property valuation. With Fannie Mae’s new policy taking effect in March 2025, now is the time to embrace this modern solution. SVI’s seamless workflow ensures accuracy, speed, and compliance.

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Stewart In The Studio: From Mortgage Data to Mortgage Servicing

Are you a mortgage servicer looking for ways to optimize your operations, reduce costs and risks, all while…

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Appraisal Risk Review (ARR): Confidently Move your Whole Loan or Securitization Deals Forward

Need a product for mortgages being purchased into conduits or packaged into securitizations? SVI’s Appraisal Risk Review (ARR)…

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Stewart In The Studio: Appraisal Modernization and Diversity for Improved Quality and Turn-times

In this week’s Stewart In The Studio episode, Teri Zarate and Richard Garrie share the latest on industry…

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Home Value Forecast

Home Value Forecast: 2023 End-of-Year Review of the Residential Real Estate Market

Happy holidays! It’s time for the final Home Value Forecast (HVF) of 2023.

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Notes from Regulatory Road

What is Reconsideration of Value (ROV)? And Why It’s Important

On June 1, 2021, President Biden announced he was launching an interagency initiative to combat bias in home…

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Valuation Blog

Working Smarter: How Productivity Tools Are Helping SVI Deliver Top Quality Reports

Real estate appraisers and brokers are incredibly busy — and rightfully so, the effort it takes to accurately…

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Notes from Regulatory Road

Changes to Appraisal Independence Requirements (AIR)

In August, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac released updates to AIR, the set of standards that both GSEs…

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Valuation Blog

7 Days to Transform Your Appraisal Management with VI Direct

SVI understands that some lending institutions prefer to manage their own appraisal panel, that’s why we developed Valuation…

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