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Schedule of Events
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.
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| 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
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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