Saturday, May 31, 2025

Expert Witness Testimony on Foreign Real Estate

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  US citizen resists Korean eminent domain Why does an American real estate appraiser like me get hired to testify on foreig n properties?  ...
Tuesday, May 27, 2025

“Top Appraisal Blog” Award for “The International Appraiser” from Feedstock.com

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  I proudly present the medallion above, but to be honest, I was only really recognized for having one of the 10 best appraisal blogs on the...
Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Reposting my post from 2013 on "Critical Thinking for Appraisers"

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Some things don't change, and I find this old post of mine to still be relevant: My posts on Scotland and Trinidad last month were criti...
Monday, March 10, 2025

A Word about some of my competitors

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/> It should be no secret that many of my international appraisal assignments come from on-line search engines. While I still get top of ...
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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...