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About Our Consultancy
American Property Research was founded in early 2006 by Vernon Martin, MSRE,
CFE. While serving as the commercial appraisal director at the largest appraisal firm
in the US Southwest, Mr. Martin's private lender clients persuaded him to open a
practice concentrating on their own needs, particularly the need to travel anywhere in
North America and deliver a report in one week or less, reporting the latest local
market conditions and verifying all borrower-submitted information. This was a
service that they had been unable to consistently find.
Vernon Martin previously served as the chief commercial appraiser at Home Savings
of America and Velocity Commercial Capital, and also teaches real estate valuation
part-time 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 Urban 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 appraised and advised in 36 U.S. States and several foreign countries.
He has also worked as a professional statistician, creating AVMs (automated
valuation models) and fraud scoring products at leading real estate data companies.
Look for his articles in The Appraisal Journal, Real Estate Review, Mortgage Banking.
The RMA Journal, Journal of Banking Law, and other real estate publications.
He recently presented a paper titled "Fraud Prevention as Part of Appraiser
Professionalism" at the 2008 Pan Pacific Valuation Congress in Seoul, Korea.
We are headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
American Property Research was founded in early 2006 by Vernon Martin, MSRE,
CFE. While serving as the commercial appraisal director at the largest appraisal firm
in the US Southwest, Mr. Martin's private lender clients persuaded him to open a
practice concentrating on their own needs, particularly the need to travel anywhere in
North America and deliver a report in one week or less, reporting the latest local
market conditions and verifying all borrower-submitted information. This was a
service that they had been unable to consistently find.
Vernon Martin previously served as the chief commercial appraiser at Home Savings
of America and Velocity Commercial Capital, and also teaches real estate valuation
part-time 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 Urban 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 appraised and advised in 36 U.S. States and several foreign countries.
He has also worked as a professional statistician, creating AVMs (automated
valuation models) and fraud scoring products at leading real estate data companies.
Look for his articles in The Appraisal Journal, Real Estate Review, Mortgage Banking.
The RMA Journal, Journal of Banking Law, and other real estate publications.
He recently presented a paper titled "Fraud Prevention as Part of Appraiser
Professionalism" at the 2008 Pan Pacific Valuation Congress in Seoul, Korea.
We are headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
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