David Maloney is a nationally known appraiser, author, television host, radio talk show guest, and veteran appraisal course writer and instructor. His reputation is based on forty years of practical experience, extensive academic and personal study, writing, teaching, and lecturing. David received his bachelor’s degree from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and his master’s from the Naval Postgraduate School. After a career in the Coast Guard, he operated an antiques business for several years before founding Frederick Appraisal, Claims & Estate Services in 1982.
He qualified as a Certified Member of the International Society of Appraisers (ISA) in 1995 and as a Certified Member of the Association of Online Appraisers (AOA) in 2001. David is past-President and currently Sec./Treas. for the AOA.
Now semi-retired, Maloney has been a full-time professional personal property appraiser for over forty years, specializing in the valuation of antiques, collectibles, residential contents, vehicles, and business equipment for insurance, probate, business valuation, divorce, and charitable contribution purposes. Currently, David provides appraisal consulting services to bank trust departments, personal representatives, accountants, estate planners, insurance agents, the moving industry, and attorneys. He has qualified as an expert witness in Virginia and Maryland.
In addition to appraisals, David also provided damage claims and inspection services for major van lines operating in the Maryland, Washington, DC, Virginia, and West Virginia area. He has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the moving industry’s Claims Prevention and Procedure Council, and he has written and spoken extensively on the role of an appraiser in the claims process. He is also a contributing author of the California Household Goods Carriers Claims Training & Reference Manual.
David served in a leadership capacity with the International Society of Appraisers from 1983 to 2001, both at the Chapter and the National levels. He served as the ISA’s Vice President and was twice elected to the ISA’s Board of Directors. As ISA’s Education Committee Chairman, in 1994, David was charged with writing the all-new ISA’s Core Course in Appraisal Studies — a six-month, full-time volunteer effort. For the next seven years, he maintained and taught this course across the country and in Canada. He has also written the ISA’s Chapters’ Manual and the Appraisal Report Writing Standard booklet. In addition, he wrote and taught the ISA Requalification Course, and he was the primary writer for the ISA’s Distance Education Course in Appraisal Studies. He has also written and taught appraisal courses for the Auctioneers Association of Canada.
David served as the ISA’s representative to The Appraisal Foundation Advisory Council (TAFAC) in Washington, DC, where he served as Chair of the TAFAC Emerging Issues Committee, and where he was recognized for his contributions to the development of The Appraisal Foundation’s Personal Property Appraiser Minimum Qualification Criteria. For his efforts, David has earned numerous ISA awards, including the coveted President’s Award. The ISA has also honored David with the Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his years of dedicated service to the ISA and the appraisal profession.
For fourteen years, David authored the biennial Maloney’s Antiques & Collectibles Resource Directory (out-of-print), a compilation of over 20,000 resources for over 3,000 categories of antiques and collectibles. Called “the bible” of the industry by U.S. News & World Report, “Maloney’s” was considered a “must have” on every collector’s bookshelf.
David is the author of the award-winning 726-page Appraising Personal Property: Principles and Methodology – 10th Edition (Appraisers Press 2024) — the only definitive, complete, and fully-indexed course book and reference guide to personal property appraising. For his efforts, he received the ISA’s Publication Award, which is presented for the most outstanding written work involving the appraisal profession as a whole. In selecting Maloney’s book, consideration was given to the degree to which the work enhances the appraisal profession, including the profession’s growth, credibility, and image.
David also authored The Personal Property Appraiser’s Guide to USPAP (Appraisers Press 2009, out of print), a plain-English guidebook to the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice.
David served as host of the Public Television series Collecting Across America and as chief appraiser on the PAX TV collectibles show, Treasures in Your Home: The World of Collecting. David also served as Chief Appraisal Officer for CollectingChannel.com and its parent company, Paid, Inc. In addition, he was the architect and Director of CollectingChannel.com’s popular online appraisal service, Ask the Appraiser.
Most recently, Maloney wrote the highly acclaimed Complete Online Course in Personal Property Appraising Featuring USPAP, a unique and comprehensive online course covering the theory, principles, methodology, report writing, standards, and ethics relating to personal property appraising. He was also instrumental in presenting Appraisal Course Associates’ Online USPAP Update Courses.
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