Before lenders will loan on a property, they usually want an appraisal to assure them that the property is worth what the buyer is offering to pay. However, the backlog in the appraisal industry, as a ...

Your home is on the market. You found buyers, a nice young couple just starting out, and they’re sold on the home. But wait — there’s one more person you have to sell: the appraiser. You can no longer ...

His 16 years as property appraiser have been trouble free. County commissioners, congressional representatives and real estate agents gush with praise for Mike Wells, whose heap of endorsements have ...

About a dozen people chosen by Butler County Sheriff Richard K. Jones to appraise foreclosed properties together have pocketed $1 million riding around in cars and taking pictures of houses from the ...

Editor’s note: The online version of this story has been changed to correct a candidate’s age. For the first time in nearly four decades, Alachua County’s property appraiser’s seat will be open, and ...

It requires an expert to identify gemstones, since different gem varieties can look quite similar. It is not always easy to tell a sapphire from a tanzanite, or an aquamarine from a blue topaz, for ...

After a crackdown on tax breaks for affordable housing developers threatened to cost him his job, Bexar County Chief Appraiser Michael Amezquita appears to have shored up support on the agency's board ...