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About American Property Research
American Property Research was founded in 2005 by Vernon Martin, M.S.R.E., CFE,
to serve the needs of commerical mortgage lenders needing extra due diligence.
Vernon Martin has served as the chief commercial appraiser at three national
lending institutions and has field experience in 39 U.S. States, 4 Canadian provinces
and 15 foreign countries. He has also taught real estate valuation at California State
University, Los Angeles. He studied at the College and Graduate School of Business
at the University of Chicago and received his Master of Science in Real Estate degree
from Southern Methodist University. He is also a Certified Fraud Examiner and
previously served as the Fraud Solutions Manager at First American. He has spoken
on mortgage fraud prevention and discounted cash flow analysis for various
organizations, such as The Appraisal Institute, Mortgage Bankers Association, and
the Pan Pacific Congress of Valuers.
He has also worked as a professional statistician, creating AVMs (automated
valuation models) and fraud scoring products at leading real estate data companies.
In 2010 Mr. Martin 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 Mr.
Martin has now expanded the content into a full-length book published by the
Appraisal Institute, "Fraud Prevention for Commercial Real Estate Valuation" at www.
appraisalinstitute.org/fraudprevention .
Other articles of his have appeared on the reading lists of the following business
schools: Wharton, Columbia, Cornell School of Hotel Administration, U. of Texas at
Arlington, U. of Kansas, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and Svenska
Handelshogskolan (Finland).
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 and presentations:
MBA Commercial Newslink, 11/13/08, Commercial Forum, Resurgence of Abusive
Real Estate Syndications
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 2005 by Vernon Martin, M.S.R.E., CFE,
to serve the needs of commerical mortgage lenders needing extra due diligence.
Vernon Martin has served as the chief commercial appraiser at three national
lending institutions and has field experience in 39 U.S. States, 4 Canadian provinces
and 15 foreign countries. He has also taught real estate valuation at California State
University, Los Angeles. He studied at the College and Graduate School of Business
at the University of Chicago and received his Master of Science in Real Estate degree
from Southern Methodist University. He is also a Certified Fraud Examiner and
previously served as the Fraud Solutions Manager at First American. He has spoken
on mortgage fraud prevention and discounted cash flow analysis for various
organizations, such as The Appraisal Institute, Mortgage Bankers Association, and
the Pan Pacific Congress of Valuers.
He has also worked as a professional statistician, creating AVMs (automated
valuation models) and fraud scoring products at leading real estate data companies.
In 2010 Mr. Martin 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 Mr.
Martin has now expanded the content into a full-length book published by the
Appraisal Institute, "Fraud Prevention for Commercial Real Estate Valuation" at www.
appraisalinstitute.org/fraudprevention .
Other articles of his have appeared on the reading lists of the following business
schools: Wharton, Columbia, Cornell School of Hotel Administration, U. of Texas at
Arlington, U. of Kansas, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and Svenska
Handelshogskolan (Finland).
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 and presentations:
MBA Commercial Newslink, 11/13/08, Commercial Forum, Resurgence of Abusive
Real Estate Syndications
Presentation at MBA CREF, 2005
We are headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
Other recommended links: California Real Estate Fraud Report
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