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Cost Approach to Value |
Cost to Cure |
Residential Replacement Costs |
Insurable Interest |
Actual Cash Value |
Trade Depreciation Analysis |
Market Value & Comps |
Structure Characteristics |
Neighborhood Pricing |
Land vs. Structure Analysis |
Imputed Land Values |
Structure Life Expectancy |
Highly Accurate Neighborhood-Level Replacement Cost Data
Bluebook's replacement cost data is widely used throughout the U.S. and Canada. For well over 40 years, it has been a leading replacement cost source now covering 680 cost categories and nearly 100,000 component prices. The Bluebook database is one of the most comprehensive and accurate available.
~ Testimonials ~
With all the liability risk facing appraisers with their URAR cost approach calculations, why rely on a data source you have to tweak? Can you say, BETTER DATA? Tom Munizzio, 2006 President of NAIFA and USPAP instructor says, the “Appraiser Assisted Residential Cost Analysis (AARCA) numbers are right on and it only takes about five minutes to get accurate cost results.”
“Baldy Williams of NCPAC and USPAP instructor says, “This is an incredible tool that I am going to introduce to all my students. It’s a must have solution for residential assignments.” The Appraisal Assisted Residential Cost Analysis report gives the residential appraiser an on line tool that is accessible from anywhere, and will produce valid cost data calculations that the appraiser doesn’t have to tweak!
“It’s the best solution for Appraisers since the invention of the calculator,” says Dave Cranford, Appraiser and USPAP instructor in California.
Tony Merlo, President of eAppraiseIT says, “what we like about AppraiserBASE is its integrity, depth and breadth of data. Before moving to Bluebook’s AppraiserBASE, eAppraiseIT tested the valuations it produced, we found Bluebook to be right on the money…
“You can see that Bluebook’s been in the data business for over 40 years, the numbers are very reliable and we're enjoying feeling confident again about the end product we are providing”, says Matthew F., an experienced California Appraiser.
In a session titled, “A Vision for Valuation” moderator Mark Linne of VaIX and Panelist Mark Simpson of Fannie Mae, Jacquie Doty of Freddie Mac and Jeff Sommer of Zillow and John Ross of the Appraisal Institute discussed how the industry is maturing in its adoption of technology, as well as why appraisers had best be on board with the change.
Linne explained the future will likely include new IT products offered by the likes of Zaio, Etrac, ACI and Bluebook International and others…
More testimonials available upon request…