Pioneer Valley Appraisal Company provides honest and ethical appraisals for Hampshire County

Pioneer Valley Appraisal upholds the utmost professional ethics

Appraising is a profession, and appraisers are professionals. Requirements to become a licensed appraiser have become more difficult than ever in the past. So it goes without question these days that real estate appraisal can certainly be dubbed a profession as opposed to a trade. As with any profession we have a strict ethical code.

An appraiser's chief obligation is to their client.Typically, for a regular residential appraisal, the appraiser's client is the lender ordering the appraisal, and often the appraisal is ordered by a third party the lender has hired in order to maintain independence. It follows that appraisers are typically restricted to only disclosing their findings to their clients, so as a homeowner, if you desire a copy of an appraisal report, you normally have to obtain it through your lender and not the appraiser.

Other obligations include numerical accuracy depending on the assignment's nature, reaching and maintaining an adequate level of competency and education, and naturally, the appraiser must bear a professional demeanor. Maintaining high ethics and client confidentiality is just normal course of business for us at Pioneer Valley Appraisal.

Appraisers will regularly be required to consider the interests of third parties, including homeowners, both buyers and sellers, or others. Those third parties normally are spelled out in scope of the appraisal assignment itself. An appraiser's fiduciary role is limited to those parties who the appraiser is aware of, based on the scope of work or other written parameters of the order.


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Appraisers also have rules outside of boundaries of with whom we share information For example, appraisers must store their work files for at least five years - at Pioneer Valley Appraisal you can rest assured that we adhere to that rule.

We demand the highest professional integrity possible from ourselves. Working on assignments where our fee is dependent on our value conclusion is not something we can consider.That is, we can't agree to do an appraisal report and collect the fee only if the loan closes. It should be obvious that inflating a value to achieve what amounts to a bigger paycheck is unethical!This isn't how we operate.

Finally, the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (or simply "USPAP") explicitly describes unethical behavior as the acceptance of an assignment that is contingent on "the reporting of a pre-determined result (e.g., opinion of value)", "a direction in assignment results that favors the cause of the client", or "the amount of a value opinion" as well as other situations. We follow these rules to the letter which means you can rest easy knowing we are doing everything we can to objectively determine the home or property value.

With Pioneer Valley Appraisal, you won't have any doubts that you're receiving 100 percent ethical, professional service.