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Appraiser Critical Thinking: How to Spot a Fake Mona Lisa

Realwired Appraisal Management Blog

More than 50% of chief appraisers, reviewers and commercial appraisers from my informal survey thought report quality declined in the past 10 years. Houston, we have a problem. They say appraising is an art. But just like art, there’s amazing work and “meh” work. Some appraisers rely on external reviewers to fix their art.

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Perficient Included in Gartner’s 2020 Marketing Technology Vendor Guide

Perficient

According to Gartner’s CMO Spend Survey 2020-2021 , marketing technology currently accounts for 26% of budgets – a larger percentage than media, in-house labor, and agencies. Despite budget cuts due to the COVID-19 pandemic, 68% of CMOs expect their martech spend to increase in the coming year.

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Texas Halts Reopening Plans As COVID Cases Spike

PYMNTS

The hardest-hit counties in the state were Bexar, Dallas, Harris and Travis, which include the state’s most populated cities, including Houston, San Antonio, Dallas and Austin. In a survey of 2,064 consumers, PYMNTS found that around 36 percent of those surveyed fit that demographic.

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Apprehension Lingers Around COVID Vaccine

PYMNTS

In Houston, according to NPR reports , some medical staff are expressing wariness about actually showing up for their shots. And that sense of reticence, notably, extends beyond healthcare workers in Houston. Unfortunately, reticence about actually geting the COVID-19 vaccine remains persistent. According to PYMNTS’ data on U.S.

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Why Brick-And-Mortar Merchants Are Tapping Into Unattended Retail

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percent — of surveyed Canadian consumers would not mind autonomous vehicle deliveries. and SoftBank -backed robotics firm Nuro recently announced the rollout of their autonomous grocery delivery service in Houston. Approximately one quarter — or 25.3 In the U.S., Nuro Co-founder Dave Ferguson said in an announcement. percent.

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Retail Rents Falling From Manhattan To Los Angeles

PYMNTS

The worst results came from Lower Manhattan’s Broadway/Houston Street/Broome Street area, where average asking price per square foot tumbled 25 percent year on year. The board added that eight of 17 retail corridors are “experiencing their lowest price per square foot averages in at least a decade.”. That’s one out of every six.

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What To Make Of The Gradual Return Of The In-Office Workforce

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Fee falls into the 58 percent of consumers, according to PYMNTS/PayPal survey data, who report a basic unwillingness to go back to his pre-pandemic routines, including office work, until there is a COVID-19. In hard-hit New York City, 83 percent of workers are still at home, while Houston and Austin, Texas, office occupancy is at 36.8