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Inspection valuation checklist
This is a generic checklist that can be used for commercial, office and industrial properties.
The checklist is provided as a sample only. It is the user's responsibility to check and adapt it as necessary to suit the particular instruction and prevailing circumstances. -
Asbestos
Published May 2021
Effective from 1 August 2021
Reissued October 2022
The widespread use of asbestos has implications for property professionals working in all sectors and can impact on all stages of a building’s life cycle.
This professional standard contains a comprehensive overview of the legislation and industry guidance that govern the complex subject of asbestos. It provides guidance on the dangers asbestos poses to health and businesses, and sets out best practice advice to assist property professionals in complying with the regulations and implementing an effective management plan to ensure that they do not put themselves or others at risk.
The standard is not intended to advise members specially in the undertaking of asbestos surveys. Guidance on such surveys is set out in the HSE publication HSG264 Asbestos: The survey guide.
This document was reissued in October 2022 as a professional standard. It had previously been published in May 2021 as a guidance note. The regulatory requirements remain the same and no material changes have been made to the document. -
Insurance for commercial property managers (ARCHIVED)
This document has been archived and is available on isurv for information purposes only.
This guidance note was designed to outline best practice for property professionals dealing with insurances for commercial property owners.
Since this guidance was published, the former FSA has become two separate regulatory authorities, the FCA and the PRA. -
Comparable evidence in property valuation (ARCHIVED)
This document has been archived and is available on isurv for information purposes only.
Covering most types of real estate asset, this information paper discusses the use of comparable evidence in property valuation and aims to outline the principles of comparable evidence use, encourage consistency in its application worldwide, address issues of availability and the use of comparable evidence under challenging market conditions and consider the potential sources of comparable evidence.
This information paper also discusses the use of comparable evidence in different circumstances and markets, whether volatile or inactive, as well as in developing markets, where comparable evidence is often more difficult to obtain and less familiar to valuers.
Although applicable to land and buildings used for commercial, industrial, residential, agricultural and associated purposes, this publication does not cover the use of comparable evidence in the valuation of plant and equipment. Business assets or personal property are also outside the scope of this information paper, however, many of the principles described may be relevant to these types of asset. -
RICS Valuation – Global Standards 2017 (ARCHIVED)
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The RICS Valuation – Global Standards 2017 took effect from 1 July 2017, the same date as the IVS 2017.
The accompanying Basis for Conclusions explains the rationale behind the more significant changes made in the final version of the Red Book 2017. Specifically, it addresses the main refinements made in consequence of the responses received to the public consultation. It has been produced purely to assist the reader and does not form part of the standards.
Following the publication of the new edition of IVS, an updated Red Book takes effect from 31 January 2020 in line with the IVS.