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Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae (the GSEs) continue to support the industry’s transition to the Uniform Appraisal Dataset(UAD) 3.6 and Forms Redesign. Beginning on November 2, 2026, all new appraisal report submissions must be submitted tothe Uniform Collateral Data Portal® (UCDP®) using UAD 3.6. After this date, only revisions to previously submitted UAD 2.6appraisal reports may be ...

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1. It's been a couple of months since the first upload, and in the meantime, many changes have been made to the GitHub version. earthUI on CRAN has fallen quite a bit behind. But there is now a new version for R - 0.8.0 for Windows, MacOS - and probably by tomorrow for Ubuntu.


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I can't remember the source but I'm pretty sure that an appraiser is required to describe each comparable property--presumably to supplement data reported in the SCA grid. Always seemed to me that the most efficient way to do so was to copy/paste the MLS marketing narrative verbatim rather than merely to paraphrase it--for the benefit of the intended users including the client u...

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2 weeks ago, I went to appraise a HUD REO mobile home. The agent gave me the HUD lockbox code. Got there, no lock box. No could enter. Today he got back with me with a news the unit was open and that HUD still had not given him a copy of the contract.

So, tell me again why a 72 hour turnaround so many complain about is important when the time to close is 7 2 damifino. ...

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Been going back and forth with Tech support and slowly getting familiar with the new UAD. According to Alamode Tech support-Appraisers should be able to clone and start a report later this month. You heard it here first!!
This is good-since this thing would be a MESS without that feature!

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