Elliott & Company Appraisers Franchise Press Releases and Franchise News
Housing Wealth Drives Consumer Spending More Than Stocks A recent study by the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University and Macroeconomic Advisers, LLC, concludes that housing wealth has a greater effect on a consumer's spending habits tha... more (12/1/2004) Elliott® Offers Avms On Cascading Platform In response to requests from our clients for quicker and less expensive collateral-assessment tools, ELLIOTT® & Company Appraisers now offers Automated Valuation Models, better known as AVMs. AVMs are... more (11/1/2004) Elliott® Heading To Mba Convention Representatives of ELLIOTT® & Company Appraisers will be at Booth 1505 during the 91st Annual Convention & Expo of the Mortgage Bankers of America that is being held October 23-27 at the Moscone Cente... more (10/1/2004) Should Appraisers Be Required To Have College Degrees? The Real Property Appraiser Qualifications Board, an independent group that operates under the Appraisal Foundation, has adopted the Real Property Appraiser Qualification Criteria, which will become e... more (9/4/2004) Housing Prices Rise Dramatacally The National Association of Realtors (NAR) recently reported that median home prices in the United States rose a whopping 9.1% in the second quarter of 2004 compared to that of the second quarter last... more (8/4/2004) Is There A Housing Bubble? Are we in for a decline in housing values? At least one prominent economist is predicting a decline in U.S. housing values in the near future.
Cary Leahy, senior economist with Deutsche Bank, told ... more (7/4/2004) Elliott® To Hold Factory Built Homes Appraisal Conference In its ongoing effort to keep its real estate appraisers well informed in all facets of their profession, ELLIOTT® & Company Appraisers will hold a Factory Built Homes Appraisal Conference on August 6... more (6/4/2004) Elliott® Announces Appraisals Worldwide ELLIOTT® & Company Appraisers, which for several years has been performing real estate appraisals in all 50 states, now offers appraisals worldwide.
"ELLIOTT® & Company Appraisers is expanding ... more (5/4/2004) The State Of The Global Property Evaluation Art As is in many, if not most, areas of commerce, the United States is the hands down world leader in business systems and practices. This is, without question, the case in real estate appraisals. We hav... more (5/4/2004) Elliott® Adds New Web Address For the past three years, the real estate market values in Shanghai has been growing by over 20% annually. Last year real estate values in this large Chinese city increased 28%. The municipal governme... more (5/4/2004) Minority Homeownership Passes 50% Mark For the first time in history, more than half of the minority households in the United States own their own homes. Minority homeownership passed the critical 50% mark in the fourth quarter of 2003 whe... more (4/4/2004) Elliott® Adds American Express To Credit Card List Effective immediately, participating ELLIOTT® & Company Appraisers offices will begin to accept American Express cards in addition to those offered by Visa and Master Card. Credit card payments for or... more (4/4/2004) Refis, New Home Mortgages "March-ing" At A Brisk Pace The month of March is proving that the refi boom and the new-housing surge are still with us. In its Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending March 12, the Mortgage Bankers Association ... more (3/4/2004) Average Home Price Approaches Quarter Million The Federal Housing Finance Board recently released the results of its year-end survey of 2003. According to the board's report, the average U.S. home price as of December 31 was $245,700, a 3.7% ... more (3/4/2004) Elliott® Nationwide Network Of Appraisers ELLIOTT® & Company Appraisers now has a network of over 2,750 licensed and certified real estate appraisers throughout the United States. Through this network, the company is able to deliver prompt se... more (2/4/2004) Elliott® & Company Appraisers Posts Record Year In 2003 For the second consecutive year, ELLIOTT® & Company Appraisers has established a new record for business. The number of appraisal orders the company received in 2003 was a 37% increase from that of th... more (1/4/2004) Builders Increase Optimism For Next Year A late surge in demand this year has inspired the National Association of Home Builders to boost its original projection of under a million homes to be built in the United States this year to over a m... more (12/4/2003) Elliott® Offers Complete Line Of Risk Management Services ELLIOTT® & Company Appraisers is pleased to announce that it not only offers conventional appraisals, but also it now offers a complete line of risk management services, including that of consulting. ... more (11/4/2003) Taking Absentee Ownership To The Extreme Paul Jackson has opened Lunar Realty in Rismedia, Australia, for the purpose of selling land on the moon. Jackson purchased the Australian rights to sell the lunar land from Dennis Hope of Nevada.
... more (10/4/2003) Average Manhattan Apartment Values Approach $1 Million There are folks who figured people would be living on the moon before the average price of an apartment in a U.S. municipality reached a million dollars, but it looks like the latter is about to becom... more (9/4/2003) Appraisal Summit Held In Washington Over 2,000 real estate appraisers and policymakers attended the 2003 Washington Appraisal Summit recently. The Appraisal Institute, which sponsored the convention, calls it "the first appraisal ev... more (9/3/2003) Federal Reserve Study Finds Foreclosure Laws Costly To Borrowers Economist Karen Pence has recently published the results of her study for the Federal Reserve System on "defaulter-friendly" state foreclosure laws. The study concluded that such laws add on t... more (9/3/2003)
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