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About American Property Research
American Property Research was founded in 2006 by Vernon Martin, M.S.R.E., CFE,
to particularly serve the needs of private lenders who were at high risk of loan fraud.
Vernon Martin has served as the VP for Appraisal Quality Control and chief
commercial appraiser at Home Savings of America, and has also taught real estate
valuation at California State University, Los Angeles. He has a Master of Science in
Real Estate degree from Southern Methodist University, with highest academic
honors, and an undergraduate degree in Geography from the University of Chicago.
He is also a Certified Fraud Examiner and previously served as the Fraud Solutions
Manager at First American Real Estate Solutions. He has spoken on mortgage fraud
prevention for various organizations, such as The Appraisal Institute, Mortgage
Bankers Association, and the Pan Pacific Valuation Congress.
He has appraised and performed loan portfolio valuations in 39 U.S. States, 3
Canadian provinces and 7 foreign countries in all hemispheres. He has also worked
as a professional statistician, creating AVMs (automated valuation models) and fraud
scoring products at leading real estate data companies.
Mr. Martin recently received the Appraisal Institute's Armstrong/Kahn Award for most
outstanding article in The Appraisal Journal in 2009. Read his article, "Preventing
Fraud and Deception," in the Spring 2009 issue of The Appraisal Journal: TAJ
Read his latest book, "Lessons from Losses in Commercial Real Estate"
In 2008 he presented a paper titled "Fraud Prevention as Part of Appraiser
Professionalism" at the Pan Pacific Valuation Congress in Seoul, Korea, as follows:
PPC Paper
Links to other published articles:
MBA Commercial Newslink, 11/13/08, Commercial Forum, Resurgence of Abusive
Real Estate Syndications
MBA Commercial Newslink, 8/9/07, Commercial Forum, "How Condos Become
Stealth Vacancies in Multifamily and Commercial Markets".
Presentation at MBA CREF, 2005
We are headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
Other recommended links: California Real Estate Fraud Report
American Property Research was founded in 2006 by Vernon Martin, M.S.R.E., CFE,
to particularly serve the needs of private lenders who were at high risk of loan fraud.
Vernon Martin has served as the VP for Appraisal Quality Control and chief
commercial appraiser at Home Savings of America, and has also taught real estate
valuation at California State University, Los Angeles. He has a Master of Science in
Real Estate degree from Southern Methodist University, with highest academic
honors, and an undergraduate degree in Geography from the University of Chicago.
He is also a Certified Fraud Examiner and previously served as the Fraud Solutions
Manager at First American Real Estate Solutions. He has spoken on mortgage fraud
prevention for various organizations, such as The Appraisal Institute, Mortgage
Bankers Association, and the Pan Pacific Valuation Congress.
He has appraised and performed loan portfolio valuations in 39 U.S. States, 3
Canadian provinces and 7 foreign countries in all hemispheres. He has also worked
as a professional statistician, creating AVMs (automated valuation models) and fraud
scoring products at leading real estate data companies.
Mr. Martin recently received the Appraisal Institute's Armstrong/Kahn Award for most
outstanding article in The Appraisal Journal in 2009. Read his article, "Preventing
Fraud and Deception," in the Spring 2009 issue of The Appraisal Journal: TAJ
Read his latest book, "Lessons from Losses in Commercial Real Estate"
In 2008 he presented a paper titled "Fraud Prevention as Part of Appraiser
Professionalism" at the Pan Pacific Valuation Congress in Seoul, Korea, as follows:
PPC Paper
Links to other published articles:
MBA Commercial Newslink, 11/13/08, Commercial Forum, Resurgence of Abusive
Real Estate Syndications
MBA Commercial Newslink, 8/9/07, Commercial Forum, "How Condos Become
Stealth Vacancies in Multifamily and Commercial Markets".
Presentation at MBA CREF, 2005
We are headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
Other recommended links: California Real Estate Fraud Report
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