Mathews Appraisal, Inc provides honest and ethical appraisals for Moore County

For honest and ethical appraisals, rely on Mathews Appraisal, Inc

Appraising is a profession, and appraisers are professionals. The rigors of becoming a licensed appraiser have become more difficult than ever in the past. So it goes without question these days that real estate appraisal can definitely be called a profession as opposed to a trade. In our field, as with any profession, we have a strict ethical code.

An appraiser's primary obligation is to their client. More often than not, in residential practice, the lender (or an agent of the lender) places the order to the appraiser, becoming the appraiser's client. Thereon, appraisers are typically restricted to only disclosing their findings to their clients, so as a homeowner, if you want a copy of an appraisal report, you normally should get it via your lender and not the appraiser.

Other responsibilities include numerical accuracy depending on the assignment's nature, acquiring and sustaining an adequate level of competency and education, and the appraiser must conduct him or herself as a professional. Here at Mathews Appraisal, Inc, we take these ethical responsibilities very seriously.

Appraisers will frequently need to consider the interests of third parties, including homeowners, sellers and buyers, or others. Those third parties normally are defined in scope of the appraisal assignment itself. An appraiser's fiduciary role is only to those third parties who the appraiser is aware of, based on the scope of work or other written parameters of the assignment.


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There are also ethical duties that have nothing to do with whom we share information. For example, appraisers must store their work files for at least five years - at Mathews Appraisal, Inc you can rest assured that we adhere to that rule.

We meet or exceed the industry standards and guidelines set in place for professional behavior. We can't accept anything less from ourselves. Accepting assignments where our fee is dependent on our value conclusion is not something we can consider. In other words, we are not able to agree to do an appraisal report and collect the fee only if the loan closes. It should be apparent to anyone that fabricating a home's value to achieve a higher fee is unethical! This isn't how we operate.

Finally, the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (or simply "USPAP") also defines unethical behavior as accepting 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 going above and beyond to objectively determine the home or property value.

As soon as you engage Mathews Appraisal, Inc, we'll make sure you're getting the professional service you expect along with the high ethical standards we're known for.