Answers
Straight answers to the questions appraisers actually ask about deriving and supporting adjustments. Written by a certified residential appraiser.
- Do I have to adjust for seller concessions, and how? What an allowance policy is, and why concessions come off the price first. Read the answer →
- How do I support a time adjustment with market data? Measured from your own closed sales, several independent ways — with a worked example. Read the answer →
- How do I derive a site size adjustment when lot sizes vary? Land rates, diminishing returns, and what vacant land sales add. Read the answer →
- What methods can I use to derive a GLA adjustment? Why the marginal rate is not price per square foot, and the methods that measure it. Read the answer →
- How do I support a pool, shop or solar adjustment? Measuring amenity values as a cluster, against a fully adjusted base. Read the answer →
- What is a paired sales analysis, and when does it actually work? What a pair is, how pairs are screened, and when the method has enough to say. Read the answer →
- Why does the order of adjustments matter? The layered sequence, and what happens when one adjustment absorbs another. Read the answer →
- How do I document an adjustment so it holds up in review? What a reviewer needs to see: rate, basis, sample, band, and the exclusions. Read the answer →
- What do COD, PRD and PRB mean in a ratio study? The level and equity statistics of a ratio study, in plain language. Read the answer →
- Can an AI assistant help me with an appraisal? What an assistant can safely read, draft and stage — and what stays yours. Read the answer →