Real Estate Appraisal Course California

This text is extensively illustrated to give a practical approach to appraising. The course includes site considerations, site valuations, approaches to cost, market data, income analysis, and the capitalization process.

In what direction is the market heading? Are you in a market that is growing, staying the same, or declining? And what makes that determination? These are significant problems that can only be addressed by obtaining a basic understanding of real estate evaluation. Professional appraisals are undoubtedly important in today’s real estate market, since many real estate transactions involve loans and mortgages.

This California real estate course will teach you the fundamentals of the appraisal industry, the statistical analysis and arithmetic abilities needed for the job, and how the appraisal process connects to financing and the overall real estate transaction. Learn how difficult it is to obtain “good data” and the lengths appraisers would sometimes go to in order to get it to determine a property value.

Since the real estate bubble burst, appraisers have faced harsh criticism; today, they are held to some of the highest levels of professionalism in the nation. Discover the several methods appraisers now have to use to determine value using the cost, sales, or income approach, and why their assessment of worth occasionally differs from yours or your clients’.

This 45-hour statutory course has been approved by the California Department of Real Estate. Sponsor No. S0650 for DRE.