The traditional use of location quotients to determine the cluster of local industries that produce products and services primarily for export is outdated in that it uses employment ratios only. A better approach uses the total dollars spent locally. Combined with absolute levels of employment,...

This project presents a current employment profile of the U.S. real estate industry, with special attention given to the appraisal and assessors profession. It serves as an informative picture of the appraisal profession for use as a benchmark for future assessment of growth. As a component of...

Current technology allows many analysts to use regularly a complete population of sold prices of all property types derived from courthouse deed recordings. Access to the complete population of current and historic prices eliminates the need for samples, which minimizes use of much of the...