Unit 19 - Real Estate Appraisal Flashcards
Define an appraisal?
An opinion of value based on supportable evidence and approved methods
What law are appraisals required to follow?
The Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP)
Illinois recognizes what 3 categories of appraisers?
- Associate Real Estate Trainee
- Certified Residential Real Estate Appraisal
- Certified General Real Estate Appraisal
A comparative market analysis can be done by who?
A real estate licensee
What is a CMA based on?
- Recently closed properties
- Properties currently on the market
- Properties that did not sell
Define a Brokers Price Opinion?
A less expensive alternative of valuating properties often used by lenders
Define Value?
Monetary worth based on desirability
What are the 4 characteristics of value?
- Demand
- Utility
- Scarcity
- Transfer-ability
Define the Market Value of a property?
The most probable price that a property should bring in a fair sale
What is the difference between Market Value & Market Price?
Market Value is an opinion value based on an analysis of date.
Market Price is what a property actually sells for-its sales price.
What affects value of real estate?
- Anticipation
- Change
- Competition
- Conformity
- Contribution
- Highest and Best Use
- Plottage
- Regression and Progression
- Substitution
- Supply and Demand
Define Anticipation
When value is created by the expectation that certain events will occur
Define Change
The principle that no physical or economic condition will remain constant
Define Competition
The interaction of supply and demand
Define Conformity
When maximum value is created when a property is in harmony with its surroundings
Define Contribution
When the value of any part of a property is measured by its effect on the value as a whole
Define Highest and Best Use
The most profitable single use to which the property may be put, or the use that is most likely to be in demand in the near future
Define the Law of Increasing Returns
Applies as long as the money spent on improvements produces and increase in income or sale
Define the Law of Diminishing Returns
Applies at a point where additional improvements do not increase income or value