Modeling & Valuation

IAAO and URISA will accept submissions until Sept. 21 for keynote, workshop, and presentation at the conference and links to submit are below. Below are suggested topics for the Modeling & Valuation area.

Modeling & Valuation

  • Modeling and Valuations
  • Accurate Definition of Neighborhoods and Market Areas
  • Agriculture (Farmland, Hydroponic, Crop Rates, Tourism, Apiculture, Aquaculture, Cattle Operations, Row Crops, etc)  
  • Airbnb or Short Term Rental Trends
  • Assessment Equity
  • AVM’s: Regression and Statistical Analysis  
  • Best Practices in GIS
  • Best Practices in Modeling
  • Cap Rate Development  
  • Case Studies
  • Condo Valuation
  • Cost Approach Basics (Building Classification, Construction Quality, Depreciation, Interpreting Cost Manuals)
  • Dashboard Building
  • Define neighborhoods and market areas  
  • Effects of Climate Change on Property Values and Assessments
  • Establishing quality control methods 
  • Geospatial Analysis
  • Horizontal & vertical equity 
  • Housing (Affordable, Subsidized, Assisted living, Mobile/Manufactured, Apartments, etc)  
  • How Contamination Affects Value  
  • Identify and Analyze Relevant General, Economic, and Market Data  
  • Innovative Solutions for Municipalities
  • Integration of R/SPSS and Python
  • Intro to Income Approach
  • Intro to Unique Property Valuation
  • Investigating Racial Disparity
  • Minerals—Mining, Drilling and Fracking  
  • Model Techniques
  • Personal Property (Machinery & Equipment, Aircraft, Leasehold Improvements, etc)  
  • Price Related Bias
  • Report Automation
  • Representation of Unsold Properties
  • Sales Comparison (Finding & Selecting Comparables (quality over quantity), Determining Adjustments from the Market, Subjective vs. Objective Judgements)
  • The role of GIS in property inspection  
  • Time Trending Techniques
  • Tiny House/ADU Trends
  • Unusual cases and appeals 
  • Valuing land in Built-out Communities
  • Valuing Special Use or Complex Properties (Marijuana facilities—growing, processing & dispensing, Breweries, Short term rentals—Airbnb, Parking structures, Pipelines, Manufactured home parks, RV parks)