Sunday, June 22, 2025

The Most Common Fatal Flaw in Discounted Cash Flow Analysis

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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 vogue i...
Wednesday, June 18, 2025

My Part in a Successful Arbitration Against a Sovereign Indian Nation

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  No, this is not about the Korean situation I was handling before, in which the Municipal Government of Seoul underpays property owners in ...
Tuesday, June 17, 2025

What Isn't Said About Living and Owning Real Estate in Costa Rica

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 I have been appraising in Costa Rica since 2009, and have usually found myself appraising failed residential subdivisions meant for affluen...
Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Depth Matters: Appraisals of prospective ports

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Bahia de Mariel, Cuba Over the years I have sometimes been sent to the Caribbean to appraise proposed ports for cruise ships or container sh...
Sunday, June 1, 2025

Update on the New South China Mall

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I do see one person now, who appears to be a groundskeeper, standing to the right of a yellow object. In the 15-year history of my blog, my ...
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...