After being in the domain space for almost 10 years, I've had the opportunity to work with companies large and small to secure their online identity, i.e., their domain name. I often hear the same ...

Setting a sales price for a business operated as a sole proprietorship can be difficult. Each sole proprietorship is different, and insider information on the sale of comparable businesses is ...

William Apgar, former commissioner of the Federal Housing Administration, was recently quoted as saying that real estate appraising is an art form, not a science. A statement like this from such a ...

In today's environment of extremely tight inventories — low supply and high wholesale prices — accurate reconditioning estimates in appraisals are an ever-more critical component of turning around ...

How do you appraise illegal assets for the purpose of estate taxes and/or donations? Some people have tangible items in their estate that can’t be legally sold, creating a problem: There’s a fair ...

Written by Bill Waltenbaugh, as originally published in The Reverse Review. Q: I have a reverse mortgage borrower who has been advised her home will be sold in a sheriff’s sale due to nonpayment of ...

Written by Charles Gress, as originally published in The Reverse Review. Competency under Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP) is very clear. It says an appraiser must: (1) be ...

If you’ve ever watched “Antiques Roadshow” on PBS, you’ve probably gotten a glimpse of what Stephen Gleissner does. It’s a show where people bring some long-held Tiffany vase or baseball memento so a ...