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Appraisers ask for mandatory licensing; industry seeks technical fixes to appraisal-management law

5463333 · July 14, 2025
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Summary

Representatives of appraisal organizations asked the committee to pursue two items: technical corrections to the 2019 appraisal-management-company law (H.468) and a separate proposal to require mandatory licensing for appraisers in Massachusetts (S.196)

Two appraisal-industry witnesses urged the Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure to act on separate but related appraisal proposals.

Steve Souza, representing the Massachusetts Board of Real Estate Appraisers Association (MBREA), supported H.468, saying it would make technical fixes to the 2019 law regulating appraisal management companies. Souza told the…

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