Well, it looks like I’m going back to school. To become an appraiser – something I’ve already been doing for years! Why? Well, in any field, I believe it’s important to make sure that you’re not just doing the same thing year after year. You have to keep your ear to the ground and stay in touch with changes not just as they happen, but before they happen. So even though I’ve been a real estate appraiser and tax attorney for over ten years, there are rumblings of change in the real estate industry. That’s true both here in Israel and all over the world. Big changes. Huge changes. You may have heard that real estate is a $217 trillion global industry . But up until now, that industry has been almost painfully local. Attorneys, appraisers, and agents in one area may know their stuff, but they don’t really know much about real estate assets, projects, and properties in other areas. That’s true whether we’re talking about from one country to the next, one st ...
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