{"product_id":"mass-appraisal-methods-isbn-9781405180979","title":"Mass Appraisal Methods","description":"This book takes a cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural look at mass appraisal expertise for property valuation in different market conditions, and offers some cutting- edge approaches. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe editors establish an international platform and present the scientific debate as well as practical feasibility considerations. Heretic and orthodox valuation methods are assessed based on specific criteria, partly technical and partly institutional. Methodological evaluation is approached using two types of criteria: operational concerns about how to determine property value differentials between spatial and functional units of real estate in a valid and reliable way (technical criteria); and the kind of market circumstances being operated in (institutional criteria). While technical criteria are relatively well-researched, there is little theoretically informed work on the connection between country context and selection of property appraisal methods.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book starts with an examination of current mass property appraisal practices, presenting case studies from widely differing markets - from the American and Dutch, where regression-based methods have been used successfully for some time; to the Eastern European and other emerging economies, where limitations have to be compensated by focusing on the modelling assumptions.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe second part of the book looks at sophisticated modelling approaches, some of which represent combinations of elements from two or more techniques. Whatever the exact modelling approach, the requirements are always high for the quality of the data and suitability of the method. In the final section, methods are evaluated and compared according to technical criteria and against institutional contexts.With its exceptionally wide coverage of valuation issues, \u003ci\u003eMass Appraisal Methods: an international perspective for property valuers\u003c\/i\u003e addresses property valuation problems common to different countries and approaches applicable in both developed and emerging economies.\u003c\/p\u003e  Contributors. \u003cp\u003eForeword.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbbreviations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Introduction: Suitability Issues in Mass Appraisal Methodology (Tom Kauko and Maurizio d’Amato).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART I MASS APPRAISAL PRACTICE AND RECOMMENDATIONS.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Data Issues Involved with the Application of Automated Valuation Methods: A Case Study (John F. Thompson, Jr).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The Modified Comparable Sales Method as the Basis for a Property Tax Valuations System and its Relationship and Comparison to Spatially Autoregressive Valuation Models (Richard A. Borst and William J. McCluskey).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Automated Valuation in the Dutch Housing Market: The Web-Application 'MarktPositie' Used by NVM-Realtors (Dree Op ’t Veld, Emma Bijlsma and Paulien van de Hoef).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Using Fuzzy Numbers in Mass Appraisal: The Case of the Belarusian Property Market (Maurizio d’Amato and Nikolai Siniak).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART II CURRENT ADVANCED METHODS.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Mass Appraisal, Hedonic Price Modelling and Urban Externalities: Understanding Property Value Shaping Processes (François Des Rosiers and Marius Thériault).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Residuals Analysis for Constructing ‘More Real’ Property Value (Małgorzata Renigier).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 The Hierarchical Trend Model (Marc K. Francke).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART III EMERGING METHODS.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Developing Mass Appraisal Models with Fuzzy Systems (Marco Aurélio Stumpf González).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Utterly Unorthodox Modelling for the Purposes of Mass Appraisal: An Approach Based on Patterns and Judgments (Tom Kauko).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Rough Set Theory as Property Valuation Methodology: The Whole Story (Maurizio d’Amato).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART IV COMPARISON OF TOOLS USING A SET OF SPECIFIC CRITERIA.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Technical Comparison of the Methods Including Formal Testing of Accuracy and Other Modelling Performance Using Own Data Sets and Multiple Regression Analysis (Richard A. Borst, François Des Rosiers, Małgorzata Renigier, Marco Aurélio Stumpf González, Tom Kauko and Maurizio d’Amato).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Property Market Classification and Mass Appraisal Methodology (Maurizio d’Amato and Tom Kauko).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART V CONCLUSION.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Automated Valuation Methods, Empirical Modelling of Value, and Systems for Market Analysis (Tom Kauko).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlossary.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003eTom Kauko,\u003c\/b\u003e Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaurizio d'Amato,\u003c\/b\u003e Technical Univerisity Politecnico di Bari, Italy.\u003c\/p\u003e  This book takes a cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural look at mass appraisal expertise for property valuation in different market conditions, and offers some cutting- edge approaches. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe editors establish an international platform and present the scientific debate as well as practical feasibility considerations. Heretic and orthodox valuation methods are assessed based on specific criteria, partly technical and partly institutional. Methodological evaluation is approached using two types of criteria: operational concerns about how to determine property value differentials between spatial and functional units of real estate in a valid and reliable way (technical criteria); and the kind of market circumstances being operated in (institutional criteria). While technical criteria are relatively well-researched, there is little theoretically informed work on the connection between country context and selection of property appraisal methods.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book starts with an examination of current mass property appraisal practices, presenting case studies from widely differing markets - from the American and Dutch, where regression-based methods have been used successfully for some time; to the Eastern European and other emerging economies, where limitations have to be compensated by focusing on the modelling assumptions.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe second part of the book looks at sophisticated modelling approaches, some of which represent combinations of elements from two or more techniques. Whatever the exact modelling approach, the requirements are always high for the quality of the data and suitability of the method. 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