Friday, November 30, 2012

Real Estate Purchase Contract Scams

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The appraisal textbooks don’t mention these, so I will.   Real estate purchase contracts are often constructed to mislead lenders and...
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Sunday, November 18, 2012

Mexico's La Riviera Maya: Ruins from a post-Columbian Race

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Storm clouds gather at El Cañón de los Condos, Cozumel ...
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Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Mitsui Fudosan and Shuwa Investments: Then and Now

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Mitsui Building in Tokyo's Shinjuku district, Nov. 2, 2012 Some of us still remember a time, about a quarter of a century ago, whe...
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Monday, October 29, 2012

Appraisal in St. Maarten

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The property was a 20-acre hillside, ocean view parcel, improved with a 10,000 square foot home. The top half was zoned for conservation o...

Central American Real Estate Horror Stories

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I received another such phone call today. Today the offending country was Panama, but sometimes it is Costa Rica. I asked, “ Did yo...
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Monday, October 8, 2012

Appraisal of Beach Land in Bahia, Brasil

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This assignment was to value an L-shaped beach parcel, with the wide end of the parcel situated more than 1 km from the beach.   The subje...
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Ecuador Revisited

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The property north of Quito, near 10,000 feet above sea level  My previous Ecuadorian land appraisal reports [see July] were not favorably...
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Sunday, September 30, 2012

Appraisals for Chinese divorce in California

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    Beijing night market, September 2011 This blog has attracted inquiries from two separate California divorce attorneys who share a sim...
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Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Appraisal of a 1700-acre ranch in Belize

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I sometimes encounter misperceptions about the effect on land value when a property is divided into two parts. In this instance, a ranch o...
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Appraisal of a vacation club timeshare in Thailand

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This blog occasionally attracts inquiries from owners of foreign vacation timeshares .   They want their foreign timeshare appraised, but th...