Your Trusted Real Estate Appraiser in San Diego
Services
Real Estate Appraisals
With over 25 years of experience, The Lackner Group in San Diego is trusted with residential estate, trust, date of death, bankruptcy and divorce appraisals, PMI removal, family transactions and mortgages.
Residential Consulting
In addition to appraisals, The Lackner Group offers transaction consulting and mediation. We are very knowledgable in residential real estate and look forward to providing you with our recommendations.
Expert Witness Testimony
Todd Lackner provides expertise and legal valuation services for attorneys and government agencies.
In the Press
24 People Indicted in Mortgage Fraud Plot
San Diego Union Tribune, 2009
"Straw buyers and kickback scams proliferated during the housing boom, said Todd Lackner, a San Diego appraiser who has uncovered hundreds of suspicious transactions. But this one stands out for its size."
Foreclosures Bringing Cases of Fraud
Sign On San Diego, 2008
"Lackner, the real estate appraiser, has unearthed about 1,500 such unusual sales in San Diego County. He began researching questionable real estate deals about a year ago after stumbling across some suspect, high-priced purchases."
How It Could Happen in 2008
Voice of San Diego, 2009
"Lackner had suspicions about the loans used to finance the deals and knew they had likely been sold to Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac. He had plenty of questions for the mortgage executives, whose companies had just been taken over by the federal government, and he wanted Issa to press them on how the sales had gotten through."
Real Estate Scam Emerges — 'Crash and Inflate' Method Generally Leads to Foreclosure
San Diego Union Tribune, 2007
"Real estate appraiser Todd R. Lackner's second job as mortgage fraud investigator began when he stumbled onto a suspicious-looking transaction while online one day last March, he said last week."
FBI Investigate Business Ties Between Defense Contractor and Congressman
Corp Watch, 2005
'"There is no logical explanation of comps that could have supported a value of $1,675,000 in November 2003," San Diego real estate appraiser Todd Lackner said after reviewing the records."
How Mortgage Fraud Functions
Voice of San Diego, 2007
"Lackner’s Mission Valley office holds boxes and boxes of printouts on deals he says match the cash-back scheme, most since January 2006. He said it kills him how little it takes to buy off one of his fellow appraisers on these deals."