Honored and pleased to have you here with me! My name is Abdur Abdul-Malik and I am a real estate valuation analyst and a certified residential real estate appraiser based in the Portland, Oregon area. I cover a variety of counties in the Portland Region as well as the Greater Vancouver area. (Coverage map.)
My Business Activities:
I have been involved in the appraisal business for over 16 years and have appraised in the COW states: California, Oregon, and Washington. I cut my eyeteeth appraising in the Sacramento, California area before venturing up to the beautiful Pacific Northwest, where I actively appraise in Oregon and Washington. My services include appraising single-family residential properties; properties with accessory dwelling units; condominiums; vacant land parcels (including parcels that cannot be built on); duplex, triplex, and fourplex properties; as well as homes on acreage.
I am very interested in the analytics side of real estate appraising and I use, modify, and build advanced custom Excel spreadsheets. I employ the statistical programming language R in some of my reports. I also make use of artificial intelligence programs—including locally run large language models for confidential parsing of documents and data. My goal is to blend high-level data analytics and advanced modeling with local, boots-on-the-ground expertise. We live in an increasingly data-driven world and appraisers must marry the techniques of tomorrow with the valuation problems of today.
I take ongoing and progressive appraisal education seriously to stay abreast of the latest valuation methodologies. (A list of my recent CE topics may be accessed here.) I consider some of my appraiser mentors to be George Dell and Richard Hagar—nationally recognized figures in the art of complex valuations.
Two years of my professional work life were spent with a large national Appraisal Management Company (AMC) performing quality assurance work. My stint as a staff appraiser gave me exposure to thousands of reports from nearly every state in the Union. I have seen reports from New York City to Anchorage, Alaska to the Hawaiian islands.
My professional affiliations include being a designated member of the Appraisal Institute (SRA). I am a designated member of the American Society of Appraisers (ASA); serving as a board member of the local ASA Portland, Oregon chapter. I am an accredited green appraiser (AGA) with Earth Advantage. I am a home measurement specialist (HMS). And I am a REALTOR® with the Portland Metropolitan Association of REALTORS®.
I am a published blogger with the Appraisers Blogs website and member/contributor to the National Appraisers Forum.
I have made the following educational presentations: October 2018 AI chapter meeting; two George Dell classes; the 2018 Oregon State Association of County Assessor’s conference; the summer and fall 2019 ADU Academy; the 2019 Build Small Live Large conference; the May 2020 monthly meeting of the Portland Chapter of the American Society of Appraisers; two Chicago Title Realtor classes; the February 2022 Louisville/Lexington ADU Conference; and the Improving ADU Financing seminar.
My personal interests include chess (and some of the popular variants), hiking, and some occasional mountaineering. My personal record is a 36-mile day-hike in the Auburn Canyon that involved over 4,000 feet of climbing. One brave friend and I managed to do it in less than 18 hours! (A few of my hikes can be accessed here on Wikiloc.)
The Aim of this Blog:
My objective here is to provide something for everyone concerned with real estate in the Greater Portland Area. I will aim to present information useful to homeowners, real estate agents, brokers, lenders, accountants, estate planners, lawyers, and fellow appraisers. Topics will be diverse and timely.
If you would like to suggest a topic, please do not hesitate to contact me. I look forward to hearing from you!
Abdur Abdul-Malik
Certified Residential Real Estate Appraiser
TEL: (971) 350-9342
abdur@portlandappraisalblog.com
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