Commercial Real Estate Appraisals: Components, Approaches to Value, and Cap Rates

Date:

Feb 10, 2026

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This session will cover the key issues from the December 2010 Interagency Appraisal and Evaluation Guidelines and the October 2018 Frequently Asked Questions on the Appraisal Regulations and the Interagency Appraisal and Evaluation Guidelines. It will also include tips for integrating them into your existing policies and ideas for meeting new/recent requirements for screening appraisals for USPAP compliance.

Agenda

February 10, 2026
2:30 pm - 4:30 pm EST

For about 30 years, we have worked under multiple sets of rules and guidelines concerning the ordering and reviewing of appraisals. Appraisers have worked under the Uniform Standards of Appraisal Practice (USPAP) for even longer. This program provides a concise overview of the various rules and guidelines, plus key nuances that have created differences among the approaches taken by institutions and endorsed or supported by their regulators. Because they are guidelines, not regulations with absolute deadlines, there is discretion in how regulators apply various features. Do you know the key factors that drive the discretion? What are some tips and traps in handling review outcomes? Can your institution have different levels or types of reviews for commercial properties? What key factors drive how to set the different levels?

Topics

What You'll Learn

  • Overview of guidelines and issues critical to CRE appraisals
    • The five minimum standards and what they really mean, as derived from the original 14 points in the Financial Institutions Reform and Recovery Act of 1989 (FIRREA) Title XI that govern how institutions order and use appraisals
    • What is FIRREA? (and other regulatory guidelines still in place)
    • Yes, you can use appraisals prepared for other institutions
  • Types of reviews, as suggested by the guidelines
    • Administrative/compliance review plus a sample checklist
    • Technical/internal review plus a sample checklist
    • Outside/third-party review plus sample comments
    • Ideas for setting dollar limits
    • Ideas for screening for Uniform Standards of Appraisal Practice (USPAP) as of Jan. 1, 2020
    • Why your institution should create an appraisal/CRE properties database
  • What about evaluations?
    • Not just for loans below the dollar thresholds
    • New (as of 2010) evaluator independence guideline
    • Appraisal review outcomes and when to request revisions
Speaker(s)

Richard Hamm
Advantage Consulting & Training

Richard Hamm has been training bankers for 28 years, designing and delivering courses specializing in commercial lending and credit, including portfolio and risk management, commercial real estate (CRE) and appraisals, plus selling and negotiating skills, and director training. He also conducts eight senior lender forums on a periodic basis in multiple states and one series at the national level.

He is based in Huntsville, AL and has owned/operated Advantage Consulting & Training for 14 years, after a 22-year banking career including senior positions in lending and credit, plus president of a community bank through formation and acquisition of an existing bank. He has BS and MBA degrees from the University of Alabama.

Additional Information

Who Should Attend?

This session is ideal for CRE lenders, commercial lenders, private bankers, small business lenders, credit analysts, portfolio managers, assistant relationship managers, consumer and mortgage lenders, loan review specialists, special assets officers, lending managers, credit officers, and CRE support personnel.

Fees

Live Webinar - $299.00

  • Live Access
  • 30 Days OnDemand Playback
  • Presenter Materials and Handouts

Available Upgrades

  • 12 Months OnDemand Playback - $120.00
  • 12 Months OnDemand Playback + Digital Download - $150.00
  • Additional Live Access - $95.00 per person

**100% surcharge applied to non-members.

Association Contact

Katie Yates
Education Coordinator
o: 317-387-9380
d: 317-333-7162
kyates@indiana.bank