IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ags/jasfmr/342901.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

By How Much Can Appraised Farm Values Differ Across Appraisers?

Author

Listed:
  • Plastina, Alejandro
  • Zhang, Wendong
  • Sawadgo, Wendiam

Abstract

We compared 54 appraisal reports, completed by nine Certified General Appraisers (CGAs) for three Iowa farms at two points in time (2019 and 2020), to evaluate the variability of appraised values and its causes. Our findings confirm that, despite the norms and regulations that CGAs abide by, the appraisal process is subjective in nature, and appraised values can differ by as much as 20% of their average appraised values. Furthermore, observed discrepancies in basic facts considered by CGAs to form their expert opinions on the value of a farm, such as tillable acres and productivity indexes, are non-trivial.

Suggested Citation

  • Plastina, Alejandro & Zhang, Wendong & Sawadgo, Wendiam, 2024. "By How Much Can Appraised Farm Values Differ Across Appraisers?," Journal of the ASFMRA, American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers, vol. 2024, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:jasfmr:342901
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.342901
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/342901/files/How_Appraised_Values_Differ_Plastina.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22004/ag.econ.342901?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Daniel P. Bigelow & Jennifer Ifft & Todd Kuethe, 2020. "Following the Market? Hedonic Farmland Valuation Using Sales Prices versus Self-reported Values," Land Economics, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 96(3), pages 418-440.
    2. Wendong Zhang & Sergio H. Lence & Todd Kuethe, 2021. "Are Expert Opinions Accurate? Panel Data Evidence from the Iowa Land Value Survey," Land Economics, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 97(4), pages 875-892.
    3. David J. Drozd & Bruce B. Johnson, 2004. "Dynamics of a Rural Land Market Experiencing Farmland Conversion to Acreages: The Case of Saunders County, Nebraska," Land Economics, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 80(2), pages 294-311.
    4. Shan Ma & Scott M. Swinton, 2012. "Hedonic Valuation of Farmland Using Sale Prices versus Appraised Values," Land Economics, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 88(1), pages 1-15.
    5. Shultz, Steven, 2006. "Differences Between Agricultural Land Value Surveys and Market Sales," Journal of the ASFMRA, American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers, vol. 2006, pages 1-8.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Sen Chakraborty, Kritika & Chakraborty, Avinandan & Berrens, Robert P., 2023. "Valuing soil erosion control investments in Nigerian agricultural lands: A hedonic pricing model," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 170(C).
    2. Friederike Lehn & Enno Bahrs, 2018. "Land-Use Competition or Compatibility between Nature Conservation and Agriculture? The Impact of Protected Areas on German Standard Farmland Values," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(4), pages 1-20, April.
    3. Albulena Basha & Wendong Zhang & Chad Hart, 2021. "The impacts of interest rate changes on US Midwest farmland values," Agricultural Finance Review, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 81(5), pages 746-766, February.
    4. Melkani, Aakanksha & Mieno, Taro & Hrozencik, Robert A. & Rimsaite, Renata & Brozovic, Nick, 2024. "The Impact of Drought on Farmland Values through a Hedonic Price Analysis of Farmland Transactions in Contiguous US," 2024 Annual Meeting, July 28-30, New Orleans, LA 344018, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    5. Luise Meissner & Lisa Kappenberg & Oliver Musshoff, 2022. "An Analytical Framework for Evaluating Farmland Market Regulation: Examining the German Land Transaction Law," Land, MDPI, vol. 11(10), pages 1-12, October.
    6. Plogmann, Jana & Mußhoff, Oliver & Odening, Martin & Ritter, Matthias, 2022. "Farmland sales under returns and price uncertainty," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 117(C).
    7. Maximilian Humpesch & Stefan Seifert & Alfons Balmann & Silke Hüttel, 2022. "How does tenancy affect farmland prices? Effects of lease status, lease term and buyer type," Agricultural Finance Review, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 83(2), pages 242-263, September.
    8. Stefan Seifert & Christoph Kahle & Silke Hüttel, 2021. "Price Dispersion in Farmland Markets: What Is the Role of Asymmetric Information?," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 103(4), pages 1545-1568, August.
    9. Ayala Wineman & Thomas S Jayne, 2018. "Land Prices Heading Skyward? An Analysis of Farmland Values across Tanzania," Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 40(2), pages 187-214.
    10. Czyżewski, Bazyli & Trojanek, Radosław, 2016. "Drivers of agricultural land prices in terms of different functions of rural areas in Poland," Problems of Agricultural Economics / Zagadnienia Ekonomiki Rolnej 249742, Institute of Agricultural and Food Economics - National Research Institute (IAFE-NRI).
    11. repec:ags:aaea22:335557 is not listed on IDEAS
    12. Allan, Corey & Kerr, Suzi & Owen, Sally, 2020. "Over-valued or over-looked? A theoretical and empirical investigation of agricultural land values against profitability in Aotearoa New Zealand," Working Paper Series 9129, Victoria University of Wellington, School of Economics and Finance.
    13. Henning Schaak & Luise Meissner & Oliver Musshoff, 2023. "New insights on regional differences of the farmland price structure: An extended replication study on the parcel size–price relationship," Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 45(3), pages 1427-1449, September.
    14. Marlene Kionka & Martin Odening & Jana Plogmann & Matthias Ritter, 2021. "Measuring liquidity in agricultural land markets," Agricultural Finance Review, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 82(4), pages 690-713, September.
    15. Allan, Corey & Kerr, Suzi, 2013. "Examining Patterns in and Drivers of Rural Land Values," 2013 Conference, August 28-30, 2013, Christchurch, New Zealand 160191, New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
    16. Choumert, Johanna & Phélinas, Pascale, 2015. "Determinants of agricultural land values in Argentina," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 110(C), pages 134-140.
    17. Graubner, Marten & Hüttel, Silke, 2024. "Rental and sale prices of agricultural lands under spatial competition," FORLand Working Papers 29 (2024), Humboldt University Berlin, DFG Research Unit 2569 FORLand "Agricultural Land Markets – Efficiency and Regulation".
    18. Choumert, Johanna & Phélinas, Pascale, 2014. "A Hedonic Analysis Of Agricultural Land Values In A Gm Soybean Area Of Argentina," 2014 International Congress, August 26-29, 2014, Ljubljana, Slovenia 182750, European Association of Agricultural Economists.
    19. Allan, Corey & Kerr, Suzi & Owen, Sally, 2020. "Over-valued or over-looked? A theoretical and empirical investigation of agricultural land values against profitability in Aotearoa New Zealand," Working Paper Series 21087, Victoria University of Wellington, School of Economics and Finance.
    20. B. James Deaton & Chad Lawley, 2022. "A survey of literature examining farmland prices: A Canadian focus," Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d'agroeconomie, Canadian Agricultural Economics Society/Societe canadienne d'agroeconomie, vol. 70(2), pages 95-121, June.
    21. an de Meulen, Philipp & Micheli, Martin & Schaffner, Sandra, 2014. "Documentation of German real estate market data: Sample of real estate advertisements on the internet platform ImmobilienScout24, 2007-2013," RWI Materialien 80, RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Agricultural Finance;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ags:jasfmr:342901. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/asfmrea.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.