28-Hr. Appraiser Complete Self-Paced CE Package

This 7-hour AQB CAP approved course meets the Valuation Bias and Fair Housing Laws and Regulations Outline from the Real Property Qualification Criteria for Continuing Education during the first CE cycle after January 1, 2026.

Join us for this engaging seven-hour course designed to refresh and reinforce your understanding of valuation bias and its impact on the real estate industry. As appraisal professionals, you'll explore how historical practices, legal frameworks, and modern regulations shape your work today. Through interactive inquiries, real-world case studies, and practical examples, we'll delve into key federal fair housing laws and effective strategies to recognize and prevent bias in appraisals.

This course offers an opportunity to deepen your expertise and stay current with the latest developments in housing policies. By participating, you'll enhance your ability to deliver appraisals that align with professional standards and promote fairness in the industry. Whether you're fulfilling continuing education requirements or looking to enrich your professional practice, we invite you to be part of this important conversation shaping the future of appraisal.

This asynchronous 7-Hour Equivalent USPAP Course is designed to strengthen an appraiser’s ability to apply USPAP with clarity, consistency, and professional judgment in today’s appraisal environment. The course begins by reinforcing the critical role of USPAP’s defined terminology, examining how precise language establishes a shared professional framework that governs scope of work decisions, assignment elements, and ethical obligations. By focusing on how USPAP distinguishes concepts such as client and intended user, impartiality and bias, and objectivity and independence, appraisers gain a stronger foundation for recognizing and avoiding common compliance pitfalls.

Building on this foundation, the course examines impartiality, bias, and ethical judgment as core components of credible appraisal practice. Learners explore how personal interests, preferences, and undisclosed information can affect objectivity, when disclosure is required under the ETHICS RULE, and how materiality influences whether a situation results in a USPAP violation. Emphasis is placed on applying ethical standards to real appraisal decisions, rather than treating ethics as abstract requirements.

The remainder of the course applies USPAP through a series of practical case studies that reflect modern appraisal challenges. These scenarios address client relationships and report control, data and documentation management, effective dates, workfile obligations, emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, scope of work decisions, property rights, leases, and extraordinary assumptions. Throughout the course, appraisers use the 2024 USPAP and the 2026 USPAP® Guidance and Reference Manual, accessible within the course, to locate authoritative guidance, support defensible conclusions, and strengthen their ability to apply USPAP in complex, real-world assignments.

This course provides three hours of continued education in energy-efficiency and green building that increasingly impacts modern appraisals. The course covers best practices for appraising energy efficient homes including terminology, building features, and credits. Topics include introductions to going green and sustainability, green energy labels, ratings, and certifications. Appraisal professionals will also learn how to valuate green and high-performance properties, incorporating energy-efficient data into an Appraisal report, and resources for green valuations. The course closes with an in-depth review of The Residential Green and Energy Efficient Addendum.

Are ADUs popping up in your market? Or maybe you’re seeing more tiny homes, modular builds, and other housing alternatives. This four-hour continuing education course, Appraising ADUs and Modern Homes, helps you make sense of these trends and equips you with the skills to value them confidently.

You’ll dive into zoning and placement requirements, learn how to identify and measure ADUs using ANSI® standards, and explore valuation methods when traditional comps fall short. We’ll cover GSE eligibility rules, Form 1004 reporting for ADUs, and practical tips for handling scope of work decisions. Plus, you’ll get strategies to address marketability challenges for tiny, modular, and factory-built homes, so you can deliver accurate, USPAP-compliant appraisals in every situation.

Natural disasters create complex challenges for real estate appraisers, requiring specialized knowledge, ethical judgment, and regulatory awareness. This 7-hour continuing education course prepares appraisers to confidently evaluate residential properties affected by events such as floods, wildfires, hurricanes, and earthquakes.

You’ll learn how to assess physical damage, identify market impacts, and navigate post-disaster conditions using standards outlined in USPAP. The course explores the roles of federal and state agencies, including FEMA and HUD, and explains how their programs intersect with the appraisal process. You’ll also examine ethical responsibilities in high-stakes situations, along with key valuation considerations such as stigma, highest and best use, and extraordinary assumptions.

Throughout the course, you’ll engage with real-world scenarios and practical tools that support credible, compliant appraisal reports in disaster-impacted markets. Whether you’re expanding your expertise or preparing to serve communities in recovery, this course offers timely insight and professional guidance tailored to today’s evolving risk landscape.