Friday, February 28, 2025

How Wildfires Reduce the Value of Land

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The denuded hillsides have created flash floods and rock slides   Living in California for the last 37 years, I have witnessed several wildf...
Saturday, February 8, 2025

10 Mistakes that Other International Appraisers Make

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  1.      1.    No boots on the ground. T     The above photo was taken from Isla de Mujeres, Mexico.  It might look like a fertile agricult...
Friday, January 3, 2025

The Peculiarities of Appraising and Investing in Log Homes

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  11,000 square foot log home in Montana, appraised in 2017 Log homes were originally built in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe as early as th...
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Wednesday, October 16, 2024

An Appraisal in Alaska

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  Although I devote this blog to foreign appraisal assignments, I find appraising in Alaska not so different from appraising in a foreign co...
Sunday, February 18, 2024

The Effect of Chinese Government Policy on the Failures of High-rise Residential Towers in Los Angeles and Other World Cities

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Graffiti-clad Oceanwide Towers in LA In March 2019 I reported on the failure of three 40-story residential towers being built in downtown Lo...
Saturday, November 25, 2023

Another land appraisal in Costa Rica

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  Here was a property that measured 4 square miles of ocean view land, of which there are plenty in Costa Rica due to the sloping topography...
Wednesday, September 13, 2023

Appraisal of a Residence in Cuba

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In the almost 14 years of writing this blog, my practice has shifted from large international projects financed by big lenders to smaller pr...
Friday, January 20, 2023

German Property Portfolio Valuation

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  Four story commercial property in downtown Hannover   The actual valuation assignment was to appraise a one-half ownership interest in fou...
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Sunday, December 11, 2022

"Today is the Day, Club Wyndham!" Why Timeshares, Fractional Vacation Home Ownerships and Condotels are a Bad Deal

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            Condotel unit in Waikiki By now there are millions of disappointed investors in these types of properties. The most important in...
Friday, December 24, 2021

Appraisal in Panama

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Looks like rice cultivation This was a litigation situation in Panama in which 3 different Panamanian appraisers had already appraised a g...