About Mark

The Company

Sennott Consulting is a small group of mortgage industry experts that is led by Mark Sennott. A former award-winning investigative reporter who was nominated twice for the Pulitzer Prize, Sennott has spent more than 25 years in the appraisal and valuation business.

The company’s current focus is to leverage decades of experience in the use of appraisal, evaluations and AVMs to help lenders, Appraisal Management Companies and others navigate the new regulatory framework to bring more fairness to lending.

Some Current Engagements

  • Helping a Midwestern bank to develop a multi-AVM cascade for its home equity platform.

  • Participating in the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Project Reach program which brings together lenders, fair housing advocates and government agencies to find solutions to the racial wealth gap and possible appraisal bias in lending. https://www.occ.treas.gov/topics/consumers-and-communities/project-reach/project-reach.html

  • Developing Reconsideration of Value (ROV) best practices for a top-25 lender.