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Leveraging Smart Home Equity – Options for More Profitable Lending 

Rather than refinancing out of low mortgage rates, many homeowners are turning to home equity loans or lines of credit…

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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 December 2023

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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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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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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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Home Value Forecast June 2023 Data

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Home Value Forecast Top 10, June 2023

Each month, Home Value Forecast uses a number of leading real estate market-based indicators to monitor single-family home…

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