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On Dec. 5, 2024, lender Rocket Mortgage, part of Rocket Companies, filed suit in federal district court against the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

This was in response to another legal battle where the U.S. Department of Justice sued Rocket Mortgage, alleging the company is accountable for the actions of an independent appraiser. To go in deeper into these cases, Valuation Review sat down with Rocket Companies’ President Bill Emerson for an interview.

Read on for the full conversation with Emerson.

Valuation Review continues its conversations with appraisal industry veterans who singled out 2024 achievements, while giving us a glimpse into what 2025 holds for the profession.

We talked with a key executive and an appraisal veteran who shared his thoughts with us.

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Valuation Review recently spoke with Stacy Caprioli, senior valuation and regulatory consultant with Walitt Solutions.

Caprioli addressed the many challenges she has encountered in the profession, while finding a happy medium between personal and professional duties.

Read on for the full conversation.

Nacogdoches, Texas, native, longtime chief appraiser and poet Gary Woods retired after 44 years with the central appraisal district.

Woods received proclamations from both the mayor and county judge.

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Kelly Berriman, a real estate appraiser with Wisconsin-based ASAP Appraisals, shared many aspects of appraising, which included her rise within the profession.

A real estate appraiser with Wisconsin-based ASAP Appraisals. Berriman shared many aspects of appraising, which included her rise within the profession.

Read on for the full conversation with Berriman.

The Virginia House has introduced a bill that covers real estate appraisers, educational requirements for licensure and anti-discrimination training.

The training course would be administered or approved by the Real Estate Appraiser Board prior to the licensure.

Read on for more information about this proposed legislation affecting appraisers.

The American Bankers Association, along with banks, community and civil rights organizations, and other industry trade groups, developed a white paper on reconsideration of value best practices.

A bill has been introduced in New Jersey that establishes penalties for appraisers who engage in discriminatory real estate appraisals.

The proposed bill also requires certain information to be provided to present and prospective owners or occupants of real estate.

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Agrinomic Insights, providing unique and complex agricultural appraisals, recently announced some new company team additions.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau sued Rocket Homes Real Estate, accusing it of providing incentives to real estate brokers and agents in exchange for steering homebuyers to Rocket Mortgage for loans.

Both Rocket Homes and a brokerage owner named in the suit responded to the allegations.

Read on for more details surrounding this suit.

CoreLogic recently released its latest Single-Family Rent Index, which analyzes single-family rent price changes nationally and across major metropolitan areas.

The report highlights the slowing growth in key rental metros which all experienced population spikes during the pandemic. 

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Veros Real Estate Solutions recently released its Q4 2024 VeroFORECASTSM. 

The forecast evaluates home prices in over 300 of the nation’s largest housing markets.

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The Appraisal Foundation recently announced a new joint venture with the Farm Credit System to create a Rural Appraisal Practicum Model.

Valuation Review brings to its readers Part II of our exclusive conversation with James Park, who served as the executive director of the Appraisal Subcommittee (ASC) before recently announcing his decision to step aside.

Park shares more from his time in the ASC where his visions for the organization of visibility, transparency and partnership came to fruition.

Read on for the conclusion to this special feature.

JLL’s “2025 Global Data Center Outlook” explores how artificial intelligence (A)I is not only driving demand but it is developing more powerful and efficient data.

It also effects the center infrastructure that balances computing power and sustainability.

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Cirium Ascend Consultancy, a source of aviation analytics, has once again landed Airline Economics’ prestigious title of ‘Appraiser of the Year’ at a recent award ceremony.

October Research’s Keys to Real Estate podcast interrupted its season break to deliver a timely and exclusive discussion with Dr. Mark Calabria, a senior advisor at the Cato Institute who served as director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency during the first Trump administration.  

Calabria sat down with October Research Chief Knowledge Officer Mary Schuster to offer insights about what the housing and lending sectors might expect during President Donald Trump’s second term in the White House.

Read on for information on how to obtain this program.

CoreLogic recently announced its acquisition of a technology firm specializing in construction, restoration, and maintenance management platforms in Australia.

This acquisition aims to extend the firm’s contractor technology from Australia to other international markets, starting with the United Kingdom, and further support its rapid growth in its home markets.

Read on to learn more.

Rocket Companies, the Detroit-based fintech platform company consisting of mortgage, real estate and personal finance businesses, recently unveiled a bold refresh to its brand identity.

A Boston man was sentenced on Jan. 3 for a tax fraud scheme in which he willfully failed to pay employment taxes for his two businesses.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development published a final rule in the Federal Register to strengthen and modernize regulations for the HOME Investment Partnership Program, the largest federal grant program specifically for creating housing for disadvantaged households.

Freddie Mac recently appointed an executive vice president of Corporate Strategy and External Affairs.