Community Banking , Real Estate
New OCC Guidelines for Real Estate Transactions
written by Blair Groves
When to get an appraisal and when to perform an evaluation? This recently issued interagency guidance from the OCC can help you answer that question, as well as give you guidelines to what an evaluation must contain.
Read the full guide here: http://www.occ.gov/news-issuances/bulletins/2016/bulletin-2016-8a.pdf

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