Carvalho & Associates Appraisal Corp provides honest and ethical appraisals for Broward County

Carvalho & Associates Appraisal Corp maintains the highest professional ethics

Appraising is a profession, and appraisers are professionals. Requirements to become a licensed appraiser have increased more than ever before. So it goes without question in this day and age that real estate appraisal can certainly be dubbed a profession as opposed to a trade. In our field, as with any profession, we are bound by ethical considerations.

We have a lot of responsibilities as appraisers, but above everything we answer to our clients. Generally, for a typical residential appraisal, the lender (or an agent of the lender) places the order to the appraiser, becoming the appraiser's client. It follows that appraisers are privy to a lot of data, and like an attorney, can only discuss many of these matters with their client. As a homeowner, if you desire to obtain a copy of an appraisal report, you generally should obtain it from your lender instead of the appraiser.

Other obligations include accurate sums appropriate to the scope of the report, attaining and keeping a respectable level of competency and education, and the appraiser must conduct him or herself as a professional. Maintaining high ethics and client confidentiality is what we do every day at Carvalho & Associates Appraisal Corp.

There are some scenarios in which appraisers will have fiduciary responsibilities to third parties, including homeowners, both buyers and sellers, or others. Normally the third parties are clearly defined in the appraisal report. An appraiser's fiduciary responsibility is restricted to those parties who the appraiser knows, based on the scope of work or other things in the framework of the assignment.

Carvalho & Associates Appraisal Corp has an established reputation for completing appraisals with the highest of ethics. Contact us today to learn more.


Appraisers also have rules outside of boundaries of clients and others. For example, appraisers must be able to produce their work files for at least five years - something else Carvalho & Associates Appraisal Corp makes a part of their standard routine.

When creating reports, we follow the highest ethical standards possible. Doing orders where our fee is dependent on our value conclusion is never an option. That means we don't agree to do an appraisal report and base our pay upon coming up with a particular value conclusion. Anyone should be able to see that inflating or deflating a value to achieve what amounts to a higher paycheck is unethical. This isn't how we operate.

Finally, the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice also defines a violation in ethics as accepting of an assignment that is contingent on "the reporting of a pre-determined result (e.g., opinion of value)", "a direction in assignment results that favors the cause of the client", or "the amount of a value opinion" as well as other situations. We follow these rules to the letter which means you can rest easy knowing we are doing everything we can to get you an accurate home or property value.

When you request an appraisal from Carvalho & Associates Appraisal Corp, we'll make sure you're getting the professional service you expect along with the high ethical standards we're known for.