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    Tests Find Detailed Evidence of Racial Discrimination in Home Appraisals 

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    WASHINGTON, DC — Real estate appraisers inflicted discriminatory treatment on Black homeowners in a pioneering new “mystery-shopper” investigation, the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) announced recently.

    “The discrimination we found in the appraisals system undermines Black wealth-building and almost certainly violates the law. It is unacceptable for appraisers to undercut the value of homes and conduct themselves less professionally when dealing with Black homeowners,” NCRC President and CEO Jesse Van Tol said. “The evidence of systemic bias in the appraisal business has been mounting for some time but NCRC’s new testing showed that interracial couples in Baltimore get far better treatment and valuations if the appraiser believes the homeowner and their family are White.”

    Appraisers assigned higher average monetary values to homes when they believed them to be White-owned, NCRC’s mystery shoppers discovered. White testers received valuations $7,000 higher on average than their Black partners who showed the same home. The discriminatory discrepancies were as high as 9 percent and 13 percent in two cases.

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    In some instances appraisers also subjected Black mystery shoppers to serious unprofessional conduct – including drawn-out processes, worse communication and in one case simply ghosting the homeowner – from which their White partners were spared. 

    NCRC’s new investigation draws on the organization’s decades-long experience crafting and executing probes for bias and discrimination using mystery shoppers. Mystery shopper bias testing not only generates quantitative indicators common in research on discrimination – but also reveals and documents how discrimination happens as a human experience. The project involved interracial Black-White couples who own homes in the Baltimore area. Each home was appraised at least twice, with each partner taking turns presenting their home after altering decor and photograph displays to either “whitewash” or “blackwash” the residence.

    The discrimination NCRC’s testers experienced can have devastating effects to a family’s long-term wealth-building efforts – and not just by depressing a home’s monetary value. The delays and discourteous non-communication some appraisers in NCRC’s testing displayed toward Black testers can also cause sellers to miss out on cheap interest rates, or even derail a sale entirely.

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