Monday, January 14, 2013

When Extra Due Diligence on the Borrower Can Pay Off for Appraisers and their Lender Clients

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Most of my work is for private lenders, and there are too many scam artists out there who think of private money as stupid money waiting...
Saturday, December 29, 2012

Hong Kong Revisited -- Risks Presented by Low Cap Rates

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View of Hong Kong Central from Kowloon, November 2012 Returning to Hong Kong 18 months after my previous post, I found residential price...
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Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Perverse Executive Compensation Schemes Instigated the American Mortgage Crisis

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Last month I had the opportunity to watch my former boss on trial. On December 7th, he and his two co-defendants were found liable by ...
Thursday, December 13, 2012

The “Colonias” at the Mexico-Texas Border

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Colonia in Cameron County, Texas While working on an assignment near Brownsville, Texas, which was a proposed subdivision with no e...
Friday, December 7, 2012

Waterfront Land Appraisal in Puerto Rico

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This was a 1000+acre combination of fee simple (freehold) and leasehold interests in land around a scenic bay in Puerto Rico, and the leas...
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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