Traditionally, appraisal reviews have required lenders to have a team of underwriters in place to manually review data to ensure accuracy and completeness. This process is time-consuming and the use ...

Former Ginnie Mae president says appraisal reform is stalling, calls for Congress to embrace data-driven valuations A former head of the Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae) is ...

In today’s challenging market, higher interest rates and home values have created a unique opportunity for lenders to grow their home equity lending business. Despite the recent interest rate ...

What Is Family Business Valuation? Family business valuation refers to the process of determining the economic value of a business owned and operated by family members. This value is critical for ...

Multi-tiered entities (MTEs) offer businesses a sophisticated organizational structure with multiple layers of ownership and control. But the complex ownership structures and intercompany ...

Relative valuation—using simple metrics to compare a firm’s value to its peers—is a cornerstone of financial decision-making. If a company earns $2 billion in profit, and if similar firms trade at 15 ...

Killingly, Connecticut will be switching to new property appraisal software called Vision 8. The switch to Vision 8, a program used by other towns in the region, is estimated to save Killingly ...

Industry figures have called the triennial valuation process poorly suited to help schemes assess their needs, with technological advances allowing trustees to instantly assess their scheme’s funding ...

Due to changing conditions in the healthcare environment, many hospitals believe it is time that they move away from independence and toward some form of a transaction. A transaction has the potential ...