VA Lenders Handbook (VA Pamphlet 26-7), Chapter 13, Topic 6 — Appraisal Review Reference Materials
VA Lenders Handbook (VA Pamphlet 26-7), Chapter 13, Topic 6 — Appraisal Review Reference Materials.
Verbatim regulatory text
Verbatim provisions from VA Lenders Handbook (VA Pamphlet 26-7), Chapter 13, Topic 6 — Appraisal Review Reference Materials — each quote is a verified substring of the regulator-published source snapshot, not retyped. Quoted for reference; this is not legal advice. The operational layer (P&P updates, prompts) lives in the regulation update kits.
VA Pamphlet 26-7, Chapter 13 (Notices of Value), Topic 6 — Appraisal Review Reference Materials
• This chapter has been revised in its entirety. a. Industry News and Resources SARs should have access to articles published online by professional appraisal organizations and subject matter experts, as well as economic forecasts, real estate market trends and appraisal industry news. b. Reference Materials The following reference materials should be available to the SAR: • the VA Lender’s Handbook, • all valid VA-issued Circulars, • VA’s “Local Requirements” at http://www.benefits.va.gov/HOMELOANS/appraiser_cv_local_req.asp, • applicable Federal statutes and VA regulations, USPAP, and • residential appraisal publications which include instructions for completing the Uniform Residential Appraisal Report (URAR) and other acceptable appraisal report forms.
Operationalizing VA Lenders Handbook (VA Pamphlet 26-7), Chapter 13, Topic 6 — Appraisal Review Reference Materials
This is verbatim, source-snapshotted regulator text from the Claude for Compliance open corpus. To turn a rule like this into compliance work product: gap-analyze your policies and procedures (P&Ps) against these requirements to surface stale, conflicting, or missing provisions; operationalize any change with a ready-to-run update kit; and produce audit-ready evidence — every step grounded only in the regulator’s own words, never invented.
To work from the whole rulebook rather than this one page: download the corpus — every register on this site, verbatim, each with its source snapshot and effective date — then follow the methodology. It asks your assistant to answer only from the downloaded text, cite the register id and effective date it used, and tell you when the corpus does not cover something instead of filling the gap from memory. Running it locally also means no one sees which regulations you are looking at.
Source of record: https://claudeforcompliance.com/regs/va-m26-7-ch13-t06/
· register va-m26-7-ch13-t06 · Claude for Compliance. Free to read and download;
see regulatory updates and methodology.