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Opinion: Understanding trends is key to predicting the next housing shift

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Shashank Shekhar is founder and CEO of InstaMortgage. To contact the author of this story: Shashank Shekhar at at Shashank@instamortgage.com. The ability to provide predictability and transparency is a feature that will set you, the mortgage industry and everyone else apart from the rest.

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The appraisal industry’s hidden hand

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The value add is compliance, more than anything else,” said Shashank Shekhar, CEO of Arcus Lending. The 2017 interagency rule gives states the authority to bring civil actions to ensure appraiser independence, but it doesn’t explain the particulars. Once Dodd-Frank came out, we needed appraiser independence.