by admin | Nov 10, 2026 | Uncategorized
AI is not the problem, and it is not the whole answer either. The answer is knowing which lane each technology belongs in. The question every CRE leader is asking Scroll through LinkedIn this month and you’ll find the same question again and again: what happens...
by admin | Nov 10, 2026 | Uncategorized
Here’s to the ones who turned a cottage trade into a profession — and to everyone carrying their work forward. In 1972, I went to work as an associate for R.W. Crabtree, MAI. I didn’t know it then, but I was joining a long line of people who had spent...
by admin | Nov 9, 2026 | Uncategorized
Why the appraisal profession talks so much about its future, and so little about the solutions already in front of it A respected colleague recently posted a thoughtful reflection on where our profession is headed over the next five to ten years. His conclusion was...
by admin | Nov 3, 2026 | Uncategorized
The diagnosis everyone is missing AI pilots in commercial real estate are not failing because the data is messy. They are failing because nobody built valuation expertise into the system doing the valuing. The numbers are real. JLL’s 2025 Global Real Estate...
by admin | Nov 3, 2026 | Uncategorized
A fair question deserves a real answer This week Jarrett Hardesty, former Vice President of the Kentucky Association of Appraisers, put a question to our profession that every firm owner should be asking. He opened with an observation anyone who has been to an...
by admin | Nov 3, 2026 | Uncategorized
A widely shared post this week ran the Flatiron Building through an AI underwriting agent. From the address alone, in 89 minutes, it concluded: $161 million in, $739 million of condo sales out, roughly $350 million of profit, and a value of $530 million...
