White & Case Veteran To Co-Head Global Comp Practice
Law 360 M&A
JULY 1, 2024
White & Case LLP announced Monday the addition of a second chair for its still-growing global competition practice, elevating a 16-year firm veteran to co-chair the group.
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Don't Ignore Problematic Merger Docs, FTC Comp Chief Says
Law 360 M&A
APRIL 17, 2024
The Federal Trade Commission's top antitrust enforcer urged merging parties Wednesday to be fully open and transparent with reviewing staffers, warning that trying to get enforcers to ignore potentially problematic material just makes their jobs more difficult.
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What Are Comps and How Are They Used to Value Your Business?
Midstreet Blog
APRIL 27, 2022
You may have heard of comparable sales (comps) before in the context of buying or selling a home. Comps are a highly valuable tool to find the value of a home or a business. One of the first steps in planning to sell your business is to get a business valuation.
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Fried Frank Exec Comp Partner Moves To Paul Hastings In NY
Law 360 M&A
JUNE 6, 2024
Executive compensation lawyer Jason Ertel has joined Paul Hastings LLP's global compensation, benefits and ERISA practice as a partner in New York, the firm said Thursday.
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The Gist of Tornetta
Harvard Corporate Governance
APRIL 23, 2024
Rather than our effort to distill to its essence the complicated, enormous lawsuit that TSLA shareholder Richard Tornetta won against CEO Elon Musk and eight directors to clawback $56 billion in exec comp? Now that TSLA published its preliminary proxy statement for its 2024 AGM, we know how the company wants to respond to that lawsuit.
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Comment on Low Value = Material Deficiencies? New FHA ROV Policy by Howard Wettreich
Appraisers Blog
MAY 14, 2024
As far as I understand it, when an ROV is submitted to you by the lender, who may have received it from the borrower, they have to give you a valid and researched reason as to why their comp(s) is worthy of being considered and is better than your comp(s). This according to Dodd-Frank & the revised ROV rule.
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Comment on Low Value = Material Deficiencies? New FHA ROV Policy by Mary Cummins
Appraisers Blog
MAY 3, 2024
I’ve done some that have taken a couple of hours because they included many comps. I have to fully research each comp to determine if it’s a true comp or not. I even had one AMC tell me I should go drive by the new comps provided. Then I have to state why it is or isn’t.
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Comment on Low Value = Material Deficiencies? New FHA ROV Policy by Spencer Paul
Appraisers Blog
MAY 4, 2024
Yeah, I did just that once, not to be a butt but because those comps where mislabeled and where more appropriate than two of the comps I had. In reply to Mary Thompson Thompson.
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Comment on Low Value = Material Deficiencies? New FHA ROV Policy by Mary Thompson Thompson
Appraisers Blog
MAY 4, 2024
Reality is those comps could actually be good but sad news is the value is reduced. Everyone always thinks new comps means a higher value. In reply to Spencer Paul. Not trying to be a butt. They don’t.
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Musk's $56B Tesla Pay Trial May Spur More Exec Comp Fights
Law 360 M&A
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
As Elon Musk heads to trial in Delaware Chancery Court to fight claims that he ripped off Tesla shareholders when he was awarded a jaw-dropping $56 billion equity compensation package, the chancery has a rare opportunity to weigh in on the rights of shareholders to contest executive compensation.
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Comment on Low Value = Material Deficiencies? New FHA ROV Policy by Mary Thompson Thompson
Appraisers Blog
MAY 4, 2024
I am sure everyone has had situations where comps were provided and IF you used them it would actually reduce value, because all they did was look at sales price and did not think to look at square footage, renovations etc.
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Comment on Fannie & Freddie’s AI Appraisal Photo Recognition by Baggins
Appraisers Blog
MAY 7, 2024
Except for the fact that the home inspection photos will also be analyzed and input in that database, along with all the appraisal photos from the properties you selected as comps, as they were once subject homes themselves. Here comes the automation that the big fintechs are already using, now centralized.
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Comment on LoanDepot Appraisal Discrimination Settlement by Lindsey
Appraisers Blog
MARCH 28, 2024
I actually think the 4th appraisal used a couple superior comps in terms of quality of construction and 3 car garages. A lot of smaller GLA comps were used though in comparison to the subject. In reply to CRAIG PREECE. Yeah I saw that too. Appraisal 1 and 3 seemed decent.
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Comment on Low Value = Material Deficiencies? New FHA ROV Policy by Rose
Appraisers Blog
MAY 4, 2024
Appraiser who start out with a blank canvas (so to speak), with no asking price information provided to them, — obtaining data only by available visual information and records of the property and improvements itself, to work up the estimate and appropriate comps.
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Comment on The One-Mile Rule: Prudent Policy or Modern Day Redlining? by Cassandra Vaughn
Appraisers Blog
APRIL 26, 2024
Comps oftentimes are 20 miles +. I refused to adhere. Guidelines ask for best comparable for an area. That’s where the sales are located. I cannot create a market which doesn’t exist. I use the data present and make logical inferences and data to support. Same with the %. It is what it is or reconsider doing business in this market.
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Comment on GLA Adjustment: Adjusting Full Difference vs a Threshold Amount by Baggins
Appraisers Blog
JUNE 15, 2023
Three comps of a matching model in the same neighborhood, sales prices 100, 125, 150. Comps selections represent one better, one worse, one similar. The closer one can identify comps, the less the total amount of adjustments that would need applied. The alternative is a classical simple mathematical approach.
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Comment on Class Valuation Maximizing ROV Conversion Rates by Mary T Thompson
Appraisers Blog
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
AS NOTED IN BILL’S REPLY: “If a ROV is requested, an explanation is required from the supplying party/parties as to why the new sales are superior to the appraisers comps.” ” LET US NOT FORGET THIS. Do not reply to ROV’s unless this is included by the lender.
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Comment on Low Value = Material Deficiencies? New FHA ROV Policy by George Easton on Twitter
Appraisers Blog
MAY 3, 2024
Any good appraiser is already explicitly explaining their comp search, includes a farm list AND discusses specific sales not used that someone might wonder about. How bout a requirement that the underwriter screen any ROV before automatically sending it to the appraiser?
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Value Analytics—Financial Statement and Equity Data at Your Fingertips
BVR
MAY 25, 2023
Finding public comps for valuation purposes can be a challenge, requiring either a fair amount of digging or a considerable expense (and sometimes both). However, finding these data doesn't always have to be a struggle, thanks to Value Analytics. Let's take a closer look at how this platform makes things a little easier.
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Comment on How Many Fees Are Needed for One Appraisal Order? by Baggins
Appraisers Blog
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
Or maybe he lives in the heart of the city and takes elevators to provide appraisal services on perfect square boxes with plentiful comps, mere minutes away from the home office. 1-2 hours inspection and comps. Two and three a day appraisers using typing services, outsourcing, comps sharing, click and go pre write.
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Comment on The Illogical Reality of Mortgage Appraisal Reviews by Kevin
Appraisers Blog
JUNE 28, 2024
CU also has NOT visited the subject property nor the comparables and has not determined or provided evidence that the “comps” that are better than the ones initially provided in the report.
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Comment on VA Appraisal Request Form at Heart of AIR Violation Class Action by Joseph Stachow Jr
Appraisers Blog
MAY 23, 2023
I always use a range of values in my comp search,ie,if a home is contracted for $300,000, common sense dictates that the home is worth more than 200K and less than 400K, I always include the following statement; “In the search for suitable, similar sold comps the contracted sales price is NEVER a comp search criteria or parameter” 1
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Comment on Disparate Treatment and Impact in USPAP by Johnny Q
Appraisers Blog
MAY 4, 2023
The comps/market and analysis speaks for itself. Is the analysis sound, are the comps conditionally and locationally adequate and relevant to the subject. More redundancy and gobbledygook for USPAP. End of story. Who’s concerned about ethnicity or race and how can one appraise a property on that basis?
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Comment on The Nightmarish End of Home Appraisals by Tracy
Appraisers Blog
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
It said, Comp 2, an older, Traditional dwelling, is in the subject neighborhood…” I am baffled. We were asked today to remove the term “Traditional” from commentary about a comparable.
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Comment on Let’s All Build the Gallows Together by Mark S. Davis
Appraisers Blog
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
By not requiring the appraiser to inspect the subject property, comps, and surrounding properties, appraisers are being set-up to be the fall-guy in the next bubble as the industry is being gutted by nonsense.
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Appraisers Blog
MAY 3, 2023
“This girl runs comps, and in my office our goal is to have each comp take about one minute. When we timed her, she averaged at about one or one and a half minutes per comp. We talked about it and now she’s working to hit one minute per comp. [link] In the above post, the following was stated.
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Comment on Low Value = Material Deficiencies? New FHA ROV Policy by Jeffrey T Luzier
Appraisers Blog
MAY 11, 2024
Three of the four “new” comps were already in the report, and the fourth was a fourplex. In reply to Todd Redington. I wish all ROVs were handled in this manner. I recently completed an appraisal on a duplex and got an ROV within days. This ROV should never have been sent to me, but I had to waste my time on it anyway.
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Doubly-Binding Director Say-on-Pay
Harvard Corporate Governance
MARCH 28, 2024
The TSLA board comp case was vastly interesting and even some fun. Related research from the Program on Corporate Governance includes Paying for Long-Term Performance (discussed on the Forum here ) and Pay Without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation both by Lucian A. Bebchuk and Jesse M. Bebchuk and Yaniv Grinstein.
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Comment on New Jersey Draconian Penalties on Appraisers by Coach
Appraisers Blog
DECEMBER 24, 2023
In other words you believe that if an appraiser is incompetent and utilizes wrong comps, data, etc. In reply to hammering hank. then he must be racist/biased! smh Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity 1
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Comment on Fannie, Freddie’s Offshore Gambit Imperils Privacy of Millions by Mike Ford
Appraisers Blog
MAY 24, 2024
I can legally take pictures from the street if a comp. The GSE boilerplate unlimited reliance statements do NOT constitute a permission by the property owner or borrower to use data in an appraisal PAID FOR BY THE BORROWER for other unintended purposes. Then there is the issue of privacy itself.
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Comment on VA Appraisal Request Form at Heart of AIR Violation Class Action by Wendy Terwilliger
Appraisers Blog
JUNE 24, 2023
1) the comps were issued by selling agent, 2) appraiser used comps that were approx. Also, ignored a comp that was 4 houses down from ours that sold with in 90 days prior to ours. We live in a small town where every one knows everyone, We were located in WA Stated and purchased from Cross Country here in NC.
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Comment on The Censorship of Appraisers by Jim K
Appraisers Blog
APRIL 13, 2024
An appraisal is an opinion (among other things) of … Scope of Work The contract The neighborhood The site, including H & BU The improvements (condition, deficiencies, adverse conditions and conformity) The selection and adjustment of comparable sales The analysis of prior subject and comp sales Market Value indicated by the Sales Comparison (..)
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Comment on Let’s All Build the Gallows Together by Todd Redington
Appraisers Blog
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
The whole point made by the GSEs for having PDCs and hybrid appraisals is so that the educated and experienced appraiser did not “waste” time driving to a subject property and then to take all the comp pics. Sadly, and predictably that is not what has transpired, or at least I don’t believe it has.
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Comment on CFPB Crackdown: Unfair Practices Hurting Consumers by Pray Hard
Appraisers Blog
JUNE 6, 2024
It’s always do more for less, drive farther for less, work longer for less, put up with more irrelevant questions for less, don’t say “church” for less, why can’t you do that appraisal that’s 100 miles away where you have to drive 300 miles taking comp photos for the same price as the appraisal next door, etc.,
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Comment on Automatic Review of Photos in Appraisal Reports by Dave
Appraisers Blog
JUNE 20, 2024
The smart ones identify the submarket and draw a continuous radius until they see the best 3 comps (we don’t need 6) – At this point you are visually studying the MLS descriptions to get the best. Some appraisers search purely by price or some other attribute that may not drive value. THIS IS BEST PRACTICE!
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Comment on Low Value = Material Deficiencies? New FHA ROV Policy by Mary T Thompson
Appraisers Blog
MAY 3, 2024
Homeowners, Realtors, Lenders are NOT Appraisers yet they can tell you… your value is low AND you need to review these comps (for FREE) and smile about it or lose your license. How many other professions are there where the client or receiver of your services tells YOU what to do. When have they ever told you your value is too HIGH?
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Comment on GLA Adjustment: Adjusting Full Difference vs a Threshold Amount by don
Appraisers Blog
JUNE 19, 2023
A number of years ago a friend, was driving on a Saturday viewing some comps for an avigation easement and expansion of LAX, He noted new owner, recent buyer mowing his lawn, and also noted that this buyer paid a seemingly high price. In reply to Michael Ford. My collegiate approached the new owner asking about the price paid!
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Appraisers Blog
JANUARY 29, 2024
415 for a non-complex property under 1200sf w/3 comps and no blowback. Hey Dave, What is a fair fee? Then that’s my opinion…certainly not 1/2 of what they were in ‘2022-2021″ that’s a little melodramatic 0
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Comment on Class Valuation Maximizing ROV Conversion Rates by DGK
Appraisers Blog
FEBRUARY 10, 2024
Bill Johnson – is there a verifiable source for the comment ” If a ROV is requested, an explanation is required from the supplying party/parties as to why the new sales are superior to the appraisers comps?”
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Comment on It’s Just Responsible Journalism! by Anonymous
Appraisers Blog
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
One of the many things that are interesting to me is how in some cases the complaint is that the appraiser didn’t consider houses in other parts of the neighborhood, or even other neighborhoods, and stayed too close to home when choosing comps.
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Comment on Class Valuation Maximizing ROV Conversion Rates by PJTMC
Appraisers Blog
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
One thing of concern to me is the word “comps” (and any derivative thereof) is used too lightly. Comp or comparable would suggest they have been reviewed to advance to that status. This to me borders on illegal and taken out of context. The opportunistic morons are out here and going strong.
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Comment on GLA Adjustment: Adjusting Full Difference vs a Threshold Amount by Baggins
Appraisers Blog
JUNE 15, 2023
I don’t know, maybe it’s just perception of language, it’s not necessarily bad to say sampling, I suppose I put so much effort into comps selection they seem more like bonafied examples of similar to subject market evidence, rather than a sample. A lot of times I’ll roll to the field with 8-12 possible comps.
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Comment on New Jersey Draconian Penalties on Appraisers by hammering hank
Appraisers Blog
DECEMBER 23, 2023
as in misrepresenting and utilizing misleading neighborhood comps, data, and locations. In reply to Coach. yes “other” duh. try to keep up.
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Comment on Class Valuation Requests for Proposals by Todd Redington
Appraisers Blog
JANUARY 29, 2024
Full disclosure and #s 2021 = 228 reports 2022 = 111 reports 2023 = 58 reports I live in a Semi-rural County, so my fees are higher than those in high density Urban/Surburbia because it takes longer to drive comps and my properties are much less homogenous with very few tract communities that have 3 comps within 2 blocks.
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