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Dive deep into specialized topics and build your skills

From Oriental rugs to modern prints, ISA's connoisseurship courses teach you how to appraise categories of items that you encounter as a personal property appraiser.

Courses instruct on terminology, components of identification, and value factors for appraising specific classes and categories of items
Provides comparables and common questions to ask clients
Incorporates lessons on authentication issues and common legal issues

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Find past Connoisseurship webinars in our Recorded Webinars library.

From the ISA Now Blog

Ask an Instructor: Is It Permissible to Include Hyperlinks to Comparables in a Digital Appraisal Report? Tuesday, May 17, 2022
Question: When I am writing an appraisal report that is being sent digitally is it permissible to just include the hyperlinks to my comparables in the report? What are the best practices when sending a report digitally?
The State of the Chinese Art Market: Strong With Subtle Nuances Monday, April 18, 2022
The Year of the Tiger is off to an auspicious start with the wildly successful auction results of Asia Week in New York City from March 16-25, 2022. Attendees were celebrating being back in person, buying enthusiastically, reflecting the overall current strong market for Chinese works of art, both ancient and contemporary.
Starting or Moving Your Appraisal Business Wednesday, March 16, 2022
For those of you who have “been around the block” and have no plans of moving, you may pick up some tips for tightening up your business practices or obtaining more work. For new appraisers, this article will hopefully get you off to a great start on your new adventure. This article will focus on selecting a name, registering your business, insurance, marketing tips, and business resources ISA provides its members.
Refresher of Terminology Changes Tuesday, January 25, 2022
This is a reminder of the terminology changes made in 2020 and 2021 that affect your appraisal reports. Knowing how busy we all are, I am sure that many of you read the ISA Education newsletter posts regarding these changes in terminology to align with USPAP terms and definitions and then put them aside. Now that the New Year has arrived, you are updating your appraisal report templates and looking for this information...

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