FHA Appraisers Baton Rouge

Ascension Parish – Spanish Lake An article in the August 10th issue of the Baton Rouge Businees Report discussed the competing interests of the owners of Alligator Bayou Tours and companies that sell wetland mitigation credits to support development. The article goes on to tell of two pending lawsuits in the parish regarding the basin. I’ve taken my grandchildren on the Alligator Bayou tour have thoroughly enjoyed the experience.

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Ascension Parish – Spanish Lake An article in the August 10th issue of the Baton Rouge Businees Report discussed the competing interests of the owners of Alligator Bayou Tours and companies that sell wetland mitigation credits to support development. The article goes on to tell of two pending lawsuits in the parish regarding the basin

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Greater Baton Rouge Foreclosures Analysis 1/1/2004 through 8/23/2008 Recently, there have been a number of articles in the media about the rising number of foreclosures.

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Tri-Parish New Construction Real Estate Market Report Through July 2009 This post deals with new construction in the tri-parish (Ascension, East Baton Rouge, and Livingston) area. The data used for this report were extracted from the Greater Baton Rouge Association of Realtors MLS database. Only data relating to detached single family (DSF) homes were extracted

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One of the most difficult part of a home sale is the buyer’s inspection.

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http://www.realestateappraisertips.info/ – Re-Appraising The Home Appraisers. The Wall Street Journal’s James R. Hagerty reports on Reappraising Home Appraisers

A snippet from the article reads,
“Ms. Salazar, an appraiser for the past 12 years, says she researched the Cathedral City market carefully and did a good job. But many real estate agents and mortgage brokers charge that [...]

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We’re almost through the summer selling season since school has already started so I thought it would be a good time to look back on how the Greater Baton Rouge Real Estate Market has performed this year.  When compiling the statistics, I include only single family homes in the combined parishs that of East Baton Rouge, Ascension, and Livingston. The first thing that stood out to me when looking at the stats in MLS was that there were 95 homes closed in July 08 and 106 closed in July 09!!!  That is the first time all year when the ‘09 sales exceeded the ‘08 sales!!!  I hope that trend continues!  One more interesting fact about July is that there were fewer homes for sale in July this year as compared to July ‘08.    It will be interesting to see if that trend continues. The second thing I noticed is that the AVERAGE sales price has come back up to where it was in June of ‘08, which is $213K!!  Again, very exciting news.  The news reported the other day that our median sales price hasd also increased

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In several articles this week, both in the newspaper and on line business report, it was reported that the Baton Rouge Real Estate Market was down 18%, comparing July ‘08 to July ‘09. However, the median sales price has gone up, AGAIN!!! That is interesting because I have found that the average sales price for Ascension, East Baton Rouge, and Livingston Parishes combined, had never gone down! On a even more interesting note, we all have been aware that the upper end of our market has been very stalemated – and we think this had a lot to do with the economy in general, and the stock market, in particular. However, the Pat Wattam Team has received contracts, THIS week, on an $800+K, $600+K, $500K properties – all in the same week!!!! This has been unheard of for the past year

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http://www.batonrougerealestateappraisers.net/ – Listen To Greater Baton Rouge Real Estate Today National Of Association Of Realtor Saturday Radio Shows and Archives

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http://www.realestateappraisertips.info/  - Dave Towne: A Simple Fix for the HVCC A Simple Fix for the HVCC Unintended consequences of the HVCC agreement has come close to decimating the appraisal industry, and many in mortgage lending.  The fix is simple, and easily implemented by Cuomo, FannieMae and FreddieMac and the other regulators.  I can be done in just a few weeks. The simple fix is to require a personally signed (digital signature permitted) appraisal order form which contains a mandated certification and compliance statement approved by FannieMae, FreddieMac and Cuomo, with the license number of the signer, which states the individual (not the ‘company’) who ordered the appraisal has not influenced the appraiser in any way to compromise the appraiser’s independence in the reporting of the Opinion of Market Value. The new order form’s certification and compliance statement should be similar to items in the USPAP Ethics Rule, Management Section (Pg

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