Blogs Posts on "Valuation"

eBay Completes Skype Sale At $2.75 Billion Valuation by Take A Plunge on Nov 19, 2009eBay has completed the sale of Skype for $2.75 billion. The investor consortium is the buying party and it will have 70 percent stake. This is a group led by Silver Lake Partners and includes others like Joltid (the company founded by Skype’s o...

10 Easy Steps to Being a Mortgage Servicer by STOP! Mortgage Servicers on Oct 29, 200910 Easy Steps to Being a Mortgage Servicer with a Money Back Guarantee Become a Business Open a Line of Credit Pay $1 Million for 1,000 Loans Worth $100 Million Use your line of credit to ADVANCE each payment to the investors Accept monthly payments...

REIV Pricing Ploy Relies On Lies by Australian Real Estate Blog on Oct 25, 2009by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Lawyer Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Director Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd We now have the REIV inventing, and forcing its own legislation on real estate consumers. When will journalists, regulators,...

Twitter’s Value: 5 Eye-Popping Stats by Tech-Storm on Oct 4, 2009Just over a week ago, Twitter announced its fifth round of funding . While not officially disclosed, the recent cash infusion is estimated to be around $100 million . Twitter’s new estimated worth? – $1 billion . With all of this valuatio...

Where Has all the Money Gone? … This is a Recovery? by Al's Offerings on Business, Economy & Career on Sep 12, 2009Bernanke's deflation-fighting strategy needs to be revamped. The country doesn't need another credit bubble. The surge in delinquencies, defaults and personal bankruptcies all suggest that the era of easy money and lax lending standards is over. Why...

Call For Urgent Change by Australian Real Estate Blog on Aug 20, 2009OPINION by George Rousos Director Industry Training Consultants george@itc.nsw.edu.au After receiving glowing support from my clients and colleagues, it was now time to take decisive action by requesting to the NSW Minister- The Hon. Virginia JUDGE,...

1.1% increase in the average UK house price in July by The Inside Edge on Aug 5, 2009Halifax House Price Index for July 09 seems to suggest that house prices continue their very gradual recovery, but analysts are cautious about hailing this the beginning of the end. One reputable IFA yesterday suggested we will see a 'W' trend and...

Enzo Raimondo - Auction System's Fair, You Can Quote Me by Australian Real Estate Blog on Jul 31, 2009OPINION by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Lawyer Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Director Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd Following on from my previous posting in which I acknowledged Enzo Raimondo, CEO of the Real Estate Institute of Vic...

Enzo Raimondo - Valuation Misinformation From REIV by Australian Real Estate Blog on Jul 28, 2009OPINION by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Lawyer Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Director Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd Enzo Raimondo, CEO of the Real Estate Institute of Victoria (REIV) is a master of the partial-truth. In a recent art...

Buyers Lose Offers, Pay More Thanks to New HVCC Appraisal Rules by LoudounScene.com on Jul 8, 2009The new Home Valuation Code of Conduct (HVCC) rules that went into effect May 1, 2009 were supposed to protect consumers purchasing and refinancing homes by eliminating fraud and inflated appraisals. But the new appraisal rules are having a completel...