"The International Appraiser": Objective valuation advice on international real estate

Vernon Martin has physically appraised/valued properties on every continent except Antarctica and provides independent, unsponsored investment and valuation advice.

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...
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Vernon Martin, MSRE
Vernon Martin has 41 years of commercial appraisal experience and has physically appraised properties on 6 continents. He started his career at the global firm Jones Lang Wootton and went on to become the chief commercial appraiser at 3 national (U.S.) lending institutions, including the largest S&L, formerly taught Real Estate Appraisal at California State University, Los Angeles from 1998 to 2005 and has authored many professional journal articles (including The Appraisal Journal) and two books. He has degrees from the University of Chicago and Southern Methodist University (where he earned his Master of Science in Real Estate degree) and is a Certified General Appraiser in several states (CA, NM, TX, AK, MT and MI).For more information, call 1-323-788-1605, or e-mail him at vernonmartin@aol.com .
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