Home-Price Recovery May Be Undermined by Appraisals

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California real estate investor Bruce Norris renovated a three-bedroom home in the Riverside-San Bernardino metropolitan area in January and found two buyers willing to pay $165,000. An appraiser put the value 15 percent lower. The prospective purchasers walked away and now he’s renting the house instead. Low appraisals that lead to a sale reduce comparable prices in a neighborhood and make it \”impossible for another group of people to refinance,\” Norris said.

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