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In preparing a market value appraisal with a retrospective date of value, is the appraiser
allow to consider any information after the effective date of value, and why?
✓ Yes; the appraiser may use data subsequent to the effective date as a
confirmation of trends.
Which of the following values would a bank request for a new loan on an established hotel?
✓ Going concern value
Which of the following demand-side economic factors creates value?
✓ Desire & effective purchasing power
An appraiser concluded a market-derived 9% overall capitalization rate within the income
cap approach. The user of the appraisal asked the appraiser to render a second value based
upon the user's required 8.75% overall rate. What definition of value applies to the
secondary value conclusion?
✓ Investment value
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Which of the following methods of cost estimating is the most comprehensive and accurate?
✓ Quantity survey
An appraiser is contacted by a property manager to appraise a large & complex non-
residential property. The property manager requires the appraiser pay $3,000 to procure
the assignment. How can the appraiser accept the assignment & still comply with USPAP?
✓ The appraiser must disclose the the commission in the certifica tion &
any letter of transmittal that includes conclusions.
What construction class of buildings has wood or light steel frames & roof structures?
✓ Class D
What term describes the lump sum benefit an investor receives upon termination of an
investment or at the intermediate analysis period during the term of an investment?
✓ Reversion
A staff appraiser, employed by a local bank for 5 years, plans to leave the bank to open an
independent appraisal business. Must the appraiser remove all work files for assignments
completed for the bank?
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✓ No; the appraiser may make arrangements with the bank to access or
retrieve the files.
An appraiser receives an appraisal assignment. The appraiser has not performed any services
in connection with this property in the past three years. What disclosures are required
under the USPAP?
✓ The appraiser must disclose in the report's certification that no prior
services has been performed in the last three years.
The assignment is to value a 9,600 sf church on a 25-acre single family parcel. Residential
land is currently selling for $55,000 an acre. However, demand for new single-family
construction is eight years out with a discount rate of 15%. Similar churches have recently
sold for between $50-$55 sf. What type of value is illustrated?
✓ Market value
A parcel in the path of development is zoned for high-density apartment use. It currently has
a single-unit owner-occupied dwelling on the site. The improvements do not represent the
highest & best use of the site but the current use is likely to continue until competing sites
are developed. How is the highest & best use of the site as improved described?
✓ Interim use
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Which influence on real estate is considered economic
✓ Extent of owner occupancy
In what part of the appraisal report must prior services be disclosed?
✓ Certification
What type of assignment should be employed to determine general conditions of supply,
demand, & pricing for a specific property type?
✓ Market analysis
The subject property is a 6,000 ft by 1,452 ft home site with a single-unit dwelling. When
the site was platted, there was no zoning. The current zoning requires a 160-acre minimum
site size for a residence. What is the status of the lot?
✓ Surplus land
The appraisal assignment of a building under construction requires a value as of the date of
stabilized occupancy. What value is required, and what assignment condition is employed?
✓ Prospective market value and extraordinary assumption
What principle describes the ability of an individual or group to participate in a market?
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