Monday, October 13, 2014

The Issue of Client Pressure on Valuation Results in International Appraisals

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Costa Rican subdivision overlooking the Gulf of Nicoya It has been almost 3 months now since I’ve done a foreign appraisal assignment, and...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014

Shelf corporations in international real estate transactions

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Grand Cayman's famous Ugland House, the address of 19,000 corporations Most readers know what shell companies are. Many offshore...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Appraisal in Lima, Peru

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An interesting cityscape resulting from upzoning approved in the 1990s. Many of the office buildings erected then have a lack of windows. ...
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Saturday, July 5, 2014

Common Denominators Seen in Mexican Land Scams

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  After six years of appraising in Mexico I’ve seen the following patterns that warn me when I am being deceived. 1. My ...
Sunday, June 29, 2014

Appraisal of a proposed resort project near the Canadian Rockies

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  Curiously dead ground vegetation for a proposed vacation resort These were 130 acres in a town west of the Canadian Rockies popular with...
Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Another appraisal assignment in Nayarit, Mexico raises red flags of possible fraud

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This was the appraisal of nearly 1000 hectares (over 2000 acres) of beachfront land, my third appraisal in Nayarit. There were many red f...
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Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Another appraisal in the Bakken area of North Dakota/Canada

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Bakken is a subsurface shale formation underneath North Dakota , Montana , South Dakota , Saskatchewan and Manitoba and has become th...
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Friday, April 4, 2014

Another Appraisal at Playa Novillero, Mexico

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This assignment called for the appraisal of 91 hectares of beachfront land at Playa Novillero very near some land I previously appraised...
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Sunday, February 16, 2014

An Appraisal in Nigeria, Land of Inconvenient Factoids

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Ikoyi neighborhood in Lagos A factoid is defined by Wikipedia as “ a questionable or spurious (unverified, false, or fabricated) state...
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Thursday, January 30, 2014

Discounted Cash Flow Analysis throughout the world – Who does it right and who does it wrong?

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I entered the appraisal profession at an opportune time – in the mid-1980s, when discounted cash flow (DCF) analysis had come into v...