Class Valuation adds Makena InstaPlan ahead of UAD 3.6 shift

Class Valuation has partnered with Makena to provide appraisers with new mobile data-collection tools ahead of the mortgage industry’s transition to the Uniform Appraisal Dataset (UAD) 3.6 standards later this year.

The appraisal management company announced last week that appraisers working through Class Valuation will gain access to InstaPlan, Makena’s mobile property data collection and floor plan application, as the industry prepares for the Nov. 2, 2026, implementation deadline for UAD 3.6.

“Instaplan is an app that lets an appraiser walk through a property and quickly and efficiently it builds the floor plan as they move through the property. It lets them easily collect the other data that’s required for both UAV 2.6 but also for 3.6,” said Anthony Guarascio, co-founder and chief executive officer of Makena in an interview with HousingWire.

“We wanted to make sure that appraisers at large were not kind of caught flat-footed when 3.6 came and gave them enough time to start preparing now, and not wait till the 11th hour,” Guarascio added.

The partnership is intended to help appraisers adapt to new appraisal reporting requirements by streamlining property inspections and data collection, Guarascio and Chris Flynn, chief operating officer of Class Valuation, explained.

InstaPlan generates ANSI-compliant floor plans, calculates gross living area in real time and captures property data during inspections through a mobile workflow.

The application also allows appraisers to pause and resume data collection and complete required fields before leaving a property.

Flynn said that Class Valuation is already using UAD 3.6 for inspections, and the partnership is allowing the appraisers to achieve “muscle memory” before the mandate is in effect.

“I’d say every day we’re getting more and more prepared for the transition,” Flynn said. “We are actively controlling what we can control, and so for Class Valuation, it’s ensuring that we’re working with our appraisers in the field and know where they are from their readiness, their CE, their appraisal software, and then working with our customers and seeing where they are with their underwriting, their technologies, etc.”

According to the companies, appraisers using InstaPlan have reduced average inspection times for a standard 3,300-square-foot property from about 1.3 hours to less than 30 minutes.

Steve Yatko, Makena’s co-founder and chief technology officer, said the application supports the industry’s shift toward more detailed and standardized property data collection by enabling appraisers to capture floor plans, photographs and room-level information during a single inspection.

UAD 3.6 represents a significant overhaul of appraisal reporting standards for loans sold to government-sponsored enterprises and is expected to require more structured property data than current appraisal formats. The new standards are scheduled to become mandatory across the industry on Nov. 2.