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What’s the difference between market value and net intrinsic worth?

What’s the difference between market value and net intrinsic worth?

Jul 14, 2009 3 Comments

LandThink posted my weekly “Country Real Estate” column last week that discussed a low-cost, low-tech approach to estimating a property’s…

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Here’s a simple approach to determining market value: TAV analysis

Here’s a simple approach to determining market value: TAV analysis

Jul 02, 2009 5 Comments

Both seller and buyer need a way to get a general idea of the current worth of a particular property in its local market.

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Appraising a property with no comps

Jun 08, 2008 7 Comments

My wife and I live in a county with 2,500 full-time residents. We have a lot of cattle, sheep and trees. The county seat is a town of about 200. Melissa is one of two lawyers in the county. This is one of our county’s major cools.

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Real Estate: Let us now appraise appraisers and appraisals

Feb 07, 2008 0 Comments

Appraisers are being punched up in the courts and the press for not always providing honest real-estate valuations. What’s going on? What exactly do appraisers do? An appraiser forms an opinion of a property’s current Fair Market Value (FMV) by judging its attributes in relation to recent selling prices of nearby comparable properties.

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