With some tweaking, the outputs can be surprisingly accurate, says Donald Kelly, a public affairs man with the Appraisal Institute, an industry group based in Washington, D.

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If there are too few bathrooms listed or an acre shaved off the lot, they can appeal to the lender for another appraisal, or ask the Appraisal Institute for help getting data or ordering a second appraisal.

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Typically these evaluations are used to judge a portfolio of assets, but the government has begun to allow BPOs as appraisals for some short sales in its Making Home Affordable program, a move that the Appraisal Institute says threatens standards.

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The National Institute of Clinical Excellence (Nice) is due to carry out an appraisal of treatments for osteoporosis next June.

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Sutent is yet to be approved by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) and the NHS has said that until the appraisal is completed it is up to local primary care trusts to prescribe it.

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