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When evaluating the methods of house valuation, the general consensus with market participants from valuers to banks to software vendors is that a full valuation by an experienced and qualified valuer.. read more

Australia and New Zealand Banking Group recently installed the valuation initiation system from Sandstone as a valuation decision-making tool to increase valuation turnaround times and reduce costs. V.. read more

Australia's biggest residential lender, Commonwealth Bank, holds close to a fifth of all Australian mortgages, or around $171 billion of receivables. read more

Valuation Exchange conducted around 250,000 valuations during the 2007 financial year, with volumes strongly increasing in the second half thanks to the business of Commonwealth Bank (the first major.. read more

Recent global market turbulence stopped securitisation markets dead, although a market is beginning to develop again for residential mortgage backed securities with solid underlying assets, albeit at.. read more

First Title will offer guaranteed valuation protection for seven years under the FastVal brand, which is effectively insurance against an incorrect AVM property valuation, when valued retrospectively. read more

Credit Corp expects its second half profit to be slightly worse than its first half profit, with the full details of the latter disclosed yesterday, three days after a profit warning that slaughtered.. read more

Speaking at a panel yesterday Paul Lahiff, chief executive officer Mortgage Choice, said "the answer is yes", when asked if, given the fact that some building societies and credit unions traditionally.. read more

CommSec recorded growth in average monthly trade volumes of 42 per cent over the last six months, partly helped by the takeover of IWL in late November. read more

Commonwealth Bank contends that it's regaining lost ground in the mortgage market, and said it recorded nine consecutive monthly market share gains through to December 2007. read more