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September 22, 2026 | Residential Track

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Education Session
UAD 3.6 Update: Industry Challenges, Implementation Issues, and Common Pitfalls 
Presented by Malinda Griffin, Malinda Griffin & Co
Insights from national and state-level involvement, including what appraisers are experiencing in real time and where the biggest struggles are occurring.
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Education Session
Housing Market Trends & Insights from NAR
Presented by Dr. Jessica Lautz, National Association of REALTORS® 
A data-driven look at national housing trends, buyer behavior, and what it means for valuation professionals.
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Education Session
Artificial Intelligence in the Appraisal World
Presented by Roy Meyer, VuVu Global, LLC

How AI is transforming appraisal workflows, risk, efficiency, and the future role of the appraiser.

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Education Session
High-Value Residential Appraisals: Strategies, Challenges, and Market Considerations
Presented by Charles Baker, AppraisalPros
Best practices and real-world insight into valuing complex and high-end residential properties.

 

September 24, 2026 | Commercial Track

8:00 AM - 8:30 AM Welcome
8:30 AM - 9:20 AM Education Session
Economic Forecast
Presented by Brian Bailey, Global Head of Research at Trimont

The CRE industry is continually impacted by the interest rate environment, which has created difficulties with asset valuations. This session will address some of the conditions that are impacting the industry and explore challenges and expectations moving forward.

9:20 AM - 10:10 AM Education Session
Artificial Intelligence
Presented by Justin Gohn, Gohn & Company; Chandra Mast, Red Rose Appraisals

This session equips appraisers with a practical roadmap for integrating artificial intelligence into everyday valuation work. It begins by showing how to spot and mitigate bias in model outputs and prompts, then walks through an adoption framework – use-case triage, data readiness, skill building, and tech selection – before live-demoing leading tools such as ChatGPT (Canvas, Tasks, CustomGPTs), Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity. We will use the local North Carolina market time adjustment analysis. Real-world prompts illustrate how retrieval-augmented ChatGPT can automate exploratory data analysis, generate visualizations, and tighten narrative reports, giving attendees tactics they can deploy as soon as they get back to the office.

10:10 AM - 11:00 AM Education Session
Industrial & Retail Market Trends
Presented by Chuck McShane, CoStar

Learn insights into the state of the market for North Carolina including sales, rents, demand, absorption, vacancy, financing, and trends. This session highlights micro and macro trends in the retail and industrial sectors of the valuation industry and will teach attendees how the economy is impacting these assets. 

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Education Session
Litigation
Presented by Kelli Mayhew, Mayhew Group

Kelli’s presentation will aid real estate appraisers in navigating the legal complexities of the profession. It will discuss practices including client relationship management, contract structuring, risk mitigation, and file legalities. Attendees will also learn how recent court rulings impact their day-to-day practice and how to protect themselves in the event of a subpoena.

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Lunch
1:00 PM - 1:50 PM Education Session
Data Centers
Presented by Chris Fudacz, BBG Inc., National Data Center Practice Leader
Learn insights into the state of the market for North Carolina including sales, rents, demand, absorption, vacancy, financing, and trends. This session highlights micro and macro trends in the retail and industrial sectors of the valuation industry and will teach attendees how the economy is impacting these assets.
1:50 PM - 3:00 PM Education Session
Regional & State Self-Storage Market Trends
Presented by Steve Johnson and Melissa Zevallos, Newmark Valuation & Advisory

This session will explore recent trends in the self-storage market. Since self-storage facilities transact primarily based on cash flow, topics covered will include trends in rent, occupancy, ancillary income, expenses, investment rates of return. This session will cover items which impact cash flow such as inventory trends, interest rates, transaction volume, development costs, absorption.   

2:40 PM - 3:30 PM Education Session
Office Market Trends
Presented by Ryan Clutter, JLL

This presentation will provide a comprehensive understanding of the macro trends shaping the office market. Attendees will gain insights to navigate this evolving landscape and learn both statewide and regional trends, leasing and sales activities, supply/demand, concessions, vacancy, tenant improvement allowances, cap rates (both going in and terminal), and investor motives.

3:30 - 4:20 PM Education Session
MF Market Trends
Nick Leverett, CoStar

This session will provide an update on North Carolina’s MF market, as well as brief discussion on regional markets. Topics will include supply, demand, vacancies, rent trends, and capital markets throughout NC. The presentation will include historical data as well as forecasts.