# Appraisal

Appraisal is treated as an interconnected process and meaning field. The chapter moves from grounded mechanisms to incentives, risks, history, relationships, mapshifts, and human consequences.

## Core traversal

- [Appraisal](../nodes/processes/appraisal.md) — Appraisal translates a unique property into a supportable opinion of value
- [Market Value](../nodes/processes/market-value.md) — Market Value translates a unique property into a supportable opinion of value
- [Highest and Best Use](../nodes/processes/highest-and-best-use.md) — Highest and Best Use translates a unique property into a supportable opinion of value
- [Sales Comparison Approach](../nodes/processes/sales-comparison-approach.md) — Sales Comparison Approach translates a unique property into a supportable opinion of value
- [Income Approach](../nodes/processes/income-approach.md) — Income Approach translates a unique property into a supportable opinion of value
- [Cost Approach](../nodes/processes/cost-approach.md) — Cost Approach translates a unique property into a supportable opinion of value
- [Comparable Sale](../nodes/processes/comparable-sale.md) — Comparable Sale translates a unique property into a supportable opinion of value
- [Adjustment](../nodes/processes/adjustment.md) — Adjustment translates a unique property into a supportable opinion of value
- [Reconciliation](../nodes/processes/reconciliation.md) — Reconciliation translates a unique property into a supportable opinion of value
- [Appraisal Review](../nodes/processes/appraisal-review.md) — Appraisal Review translates a unique property into a supportable opinion of value
- [Automated Valuation Model](../nodes/processes/automated-valuation-model.md) — Automated Valuation Model translates a unique property into a supportable opinion of value
- [Broker Price Opinion](../nodes/processes/broker-price-opinion.md) — Broker Price Opinion translates a unique property into a supportable opinion of value
- [Desktop Appraisal](../nodes/processes/desktop-appraisal.md) — Desktop Appraisal translates a unique property into a supportable opinion of value
- [Appraisal Bias](../nodes/regulation/appraisal-bias.md) — Appraisal Bias reveals and governs how access to place and credit can be distributed or denied
- [Appraisal Fraud](../nodes/pathologies/appraisal-fraud.md) — Appraisal Fraud shows where trust, identity, data, money, and documents can be manipulated

## How to read this chapter

Follow claims and cash flows separately. Ask who holds authority, who supplies information, who receives benefit, who carries risk, and what changes when time or scale changes. Keep sourced fact, industry practice, synthesis, interpretation, and symbolic expression distinguishable.

## Mapshifting prompts

1. Change the unit of analysis from property to right, loan, cash flow, role, record, neighborhood, or institution.
2. Change the clock from closing day to thirty years, one market cycle, one building life, or several generations.
3. Change stakeholder and ask which previously invisible cost becomes central.
4. Return to the human map before choosing a move.

## Sentinel handoff

Legal, regulatory, fair-lending, historical, financial, cultural, and jurisdiction-specific annotations remain separate from Engine Output. They inform contextual use without flattening the graph.
