Official valuation regulations and education hub

Centralized regulatory guidance for valuation professionals.

Valuation Regulatory Institute is the official valuation regulations and practical education hub, where teams can make informed, defensible decisions about appraisals, evaluations, and collateral risk.

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Who Valuation Regulatory Institute serves

The Institute supports banks, appraisal management companies, appraisers and valuation services advisors, and allied professionals whose work depends on sound valuation practices and regulatory alignment.

Banks, credit, risk, and compliance

Centralized access to valuation regulations and structured explanations that help institutions design and maintain policies and procedures aligned with supervisory expectations.

Appraisal management companies

Resources that assist AMCs in strengthening their command of valuation regulations and in positioning themselves as compliance aware partners to financial institutions.

Appraisers and valuation services advisors
Education that clarifies client regulatory requirements and extends beyond minimum compliance into standards, ethics, and applied valuation practice.
 
Regulatory Library and Compliance Handbook Series

The Regulatory Library consolidates key valuation related regulations and guidance. The Compliance Handbook Series provides structured, practitioner focused explanations that build on those sources.

 
Regulatory Library

Search and filter valuation related regulations and guidance by authority, topic, and asset type. Each entry includes a summary, key topics, and direct links to the official document.

Compliance Handbook Series
An eleven volume e book series that organizes valuation regulations into a coherent curriculum for banks, AMCs, appraisers, and allied professionals.
 
Education programs and webinars

Valuation Regulatory Institute develops education for financial institutions, AMCs, valuation professionals, and allied advisors, connecting regulatory language to day to day valuation and collateral decisions.

Banks, credit, risk, and compliance

Centralized access to valuation regulations and structured explanations that help institutions design and maintain policies and procedures aligned with supervisory expectations.

Appraisal management companies

Resources that assist AMCs in strengthening their command of valuation regulations and in positioning themselves as compliance aware partners to financial institutions.

Appraisers and valuation services advisors
Education that clarifies client regulatory requirements and extends beyond minimum compliance into standards, ethics, and applied valuation practice.
 
Faculty and contributing educators

The Institute collaborates with experienced banking, regulatory, and valuation professionals to design and deliver educational programs and written materials.

CB Educators
Cheryl Bella
Chief Compliance Officer and Senior Education Partner
Leads bank facing appraisal and evaluation compliance programs and contributes to the Compliance Handbook Series.
CB Educators
Cheryl Bella
Chief Compliance Officer and Senior Education Partner
Leads bank facing appraisal and evaluation compliance programs and contributes to the Compliance Handbook Series.

Institutional and platform partners

Valuation Regulatory Institute collaborates with aligned organizations that support high quality valuation practice, collateral risk management, and professional education.

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Four Corners Valuations is leading the commercial real estate industry providing exceptional valuation and advisory services to our clients from all four corners of the globe. 

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FICRAS is a user-friendly and efficient valuation management system that provides financial institutions a means of complying with the Interagency Appraisal and Evaluation Guidelines and bank specific policy & procedures. 

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The foundation of the Designated Appraiser Coalition — uniting designated valuation professionals under one governance structure to deliver consistent, compliant, and credible services across the United States.

Fragmented guidance, centralized access

Valuation related requirements are issued by multiple agencies, interagency groups, investor programs, and state authorities. The Institute organizes these materials and pairs them with explanatory content and tools such as Reggie.