The phrase "appears to reside" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's location or state of being, often in a more formal or academic context.
Example: "The evidence suggests that the solution to the problem appears to reside within the existing framework of the theory."
Alternatives: "seems to be located" or "seems to exist".
Susceptibility to autoimmune diseases appears to reside in haematopoietic cells.
The reason for the delay in Europe appears to reside with the Financial Services Authority, the British financial regulator.
The propositional representation appears to reside in the left hemisphere, whereas aspects of the discourse model appear to be represented in both hemispheres.
Using immuno-affinity purification, an efficient protocol has been developed to purify the active MCCC which appears to reside in a ∼500 800 kDa complex in Superpose-6 gel-filtration chromatography.
Four of the top six seeds in the women's singles competition were born in China, and the future of the sport appears to reside in young Asian-Americans, who have table-tennis culture in their blood; the four teen-age girls featured as "top youth players" in the tournament program were named Jackie Lee, Whitney Ping, Michelle Do, and Katherine Wu).
Let's stay ahead of the pack.' " Parity may reign in the N.F.L., but the strength of the league appears to reside in the A.F.C., where races for home-field advantage and division titles feature the sport's best minds and most dynamic talents.
Half the story appeared to reside in the white spaces between bejewelled little sections of narrative.
Unlike those found in cholesterol stones, the muscle defects in AGD appear to reside in the contractile apparatus.
She hired a lawyer, James B. Fishman, who discovered in an Internet search that a woman with the same name but a different middle initial — Dolores M. Shapiro — appeared to reside at the Naperville address.
Thus, most, if not all, of the muscarinic cholinergic receptors present in dentate gyrus appear to reside on the somata and dendritic trees of the dentate granule cells.
Leaders who ordinarily appear in public as political adversaries suddenly demonstrated a level of substantive cooperation that appeared to reside in the family of compassion.
