THE MERIDIAN VALUATION GROUP

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Our appraisal reviews are designed to ensure that appraisal reports submitted to our clients conform absolutely to the Laws, Regulations, and Guidelines of the Federal Bank Regulatory Agencies, as summarized in the Interagency Appraisal and Evaluation Guidelines. Importantly, these guidelines include the requirement to comply with the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice.

Fundamental to our review process is professional and productive communication among all parties. When issues of compliance arise, it is essential that clients and appraisers understand the reasoning for issues of concern. For this reason, our appraisal review reports are designed to clearly and concisely identify compliance issues and recommended solutions, with the aim of providing feedback to reduce the incidence of compliance shortcomings in future reports.

The relationship of reviewer and appraiser is a cooperative professional partnership, with the aim of providing our clients with reports that can serve as a sound basis for lending decisions and to protect our clients from regulatory criticism.

Our scope of our reviews extends beyond consideration of compliance issues. In the course of our practice, we examine hundreds of appraisal reports each year. This gives us perspective to share the best practices of the most thoughtful of the appraisers we review with all of the members of your appraiser panel. As a result, appraisers on your panel [and your reviewers as well] can measure their own work product against benchmark practices from the best of their peers.