Core Submission questions Flashcards
What is your understanding of RICS professional statement ‘Conflicts of Interest’ 1st edition (effective January 2018).
Relates to 3 conflicts:
1. Party conflicts
2. personal conflicts.
3. Confidential information conflicts
What are the RICS Rules of conduct
- Be honest and act with integrity.
- Maintain professional competence.
- Provide Good quality and diligent service
- Treat others with respect and encourage diversity and inclusion.
- Act in the Public interest
What is your firms complaints handling procedure?
report complaint to line manager and head of division
- acknowledge complaint within 7 days and aim to resolve within 28,
- if not resolved refer the complains to RICS Dispute resolution service
what steps do you take prior to visiting site?
Bidwells lone working procedure
suitable equipment (disto, PPE)
pre visit risk assessment
what is a cashflow statement?
shows all actual receipts and expenditure including VAT
What is an income statement?
profit and loss account: a summary of the businesses income and expenditure transactions, prepared on an annual basis
What are the offences of the bribery act?
Do not give a bribe
Do not accept a bribe
do not bribe a foreign official
do not facilitate a bribe
how do you implement the requirement of the equality act 2010 in buildings you manage?
don’t just mention wheelchair access, short of sight/hearing autistic etc
what sustainability guidance are you aware of? and what is the implication on property?
MEES, Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards (MEES)
what guidance do you follow when inspecting buildings?
RICS guidance note ‘Surveying Safely 2nd edition (November 2018)’.
what are the IPMS basis of measurement?
IPMS 1 – Planning and building cost purposes (GEA)
IPMS 2 – Agency and valuation (GIA)
IPMS 3 – Agency and Valuation (NIA)
how do you measure a building under IPMS 3?
- Measure the area of a building in exclusive occupation to the IDF on a floor by floor basis.
- Includes but stated separately covered galleries, balconies and generally accessible roof terraces
- Excludes standard facilities providing shared or common facilities e.g. stairs, lifts, WCs, cleaner cupboards
- include column widths
- include areas under 1.5m
How did you measure the industrial unit in Oxford?
-measured on GIA basis
- I had scaled plans so checked layout and took relevant measures to the internal perimeter walls.
how did you measure the office space in Mayfair?
in accordance with IPMS 3
- measured to the internal dominant face
- included areas under 1.5m
I also measure on an NIA basis to dual report
what is the difference between IPMS 3 and NIA?
- IPMS 3 you measure to the internal dominant face
- do not exclude columns
- do not exclude areas under 1.5m
- measure but state separately roof terraces or balconies
what is the internal dominant face?
Internal face of the wall comprising more than 50% of the floor to ceiling height
why do you dual report with NIA and IPMS 3?
Transactional data available is still in NIA
IPMS 3 is not fully adopted by the marketplace yet
what is your understanding of the UK supplemental update requirement on firms to implement a rotation policy?
5 years maximum per valuer, 10 years per firm. 2 years of grace for transition period
Talk me through your portfolio valuation?
Talk me through your valuation of the office building in Tunbridge Wells?
why is the red book needed?
- To set a market standard and ensure consistency in valuation
- Protect Valuers and their clients against negligence claims
- Maintains regulatory and mandatory compliance
what are the 5 methods of valuation? and where would you implement them?
- Comparable method, residential
- Residual Method, want to find the value of land
- Investment Method, where there is an income stream to value
- Profits Method, hospitality setting
- Contractors Method, used where there is a lack of data
what is an assumption?
a supposition that is taken to be true without the need for specific investigation
What is a special assumption?
is a supposition that is accepted as a fact, even though it is not a fact
What is outlined in VPS 1?
Terms of engagement
what is outlined in VPS 3?
what is included in a valuation report
What does VPS stand for?
Valuation technical and performance Standards
what do you include in a valuation report?
- ID of asset to be valued
- ID of client
- ID of valuer
- Purpose of valuation
- Basis of value
- Valuation date
- Restrictions/consents on publication
- Assumptions / special assumptions
- Nature and source of information relied upon
- Extent of investigations
- Red Book / IVS compliance statement
- Report date
- Valuation approach and reasoning
- Valuation figure
What do you include in a valuation terms of engagement?
- ID of asset to be valued
- ID of client and any other intended users
- ID of valuer
- Purpose of valuation
- Basis of value
- Valuation date
- Assumptions / special assumptions
- Extent of investigations undertaken
- Reference to Ccompliants Handling procedure
- Liability cap / details of PII
- Fee basis
what is a reversionary yield?
The yield that reflects the relationship between market rent and capital value, expressed as a percentage.
What is an equivalent yield?
The equivalent yield is a weighted average between the initial yield and reversionary yield, depending on the timing of the income.
what is a discounted cash flow
an investment appraisal technique used to establish the IRR based on explicit assumptions modelled in to the cash-flow.
what is an equated yield?
Also known as IRR: a discount rate that makes the net present value (NPV) of all cash flows equal to zero in a discounted cash flow analysis.
what is the difference between a residual valuation and a development appraisal?
A residual valuation uses market standard inputs and is bound by the red book, development appraisal is a tool to assess the viability of a scheme based on explicit assumptions to produce a profit figure
talk me through your development appraisal of the development site in Sutton?
Was there a requirement for affordable housing in your sutton residential development?
yes, the London plan dictated any development over 10 dwellings required 35% affordable housing provision.
how did you value the affordable housing component in your sutton residential development?
50% of the market rate of the affordable housing component
What were the build costs on the sutton residential development appraisal?
£175
What finance rate do you apply to development appraisals?
- whatever the client can get, however in the absence of that Bank of England interest rate plus a percentage. at the moment between 8% and 9%
what do you include in professional fees for a development appraisal?
6.8%, 1% agency, 0.5% solicitors, VAT on professional fees and 5% Stamp duty.
what build costs did you apply to your mixed use development in corn market street Oxford?
light touch retail refurb was only £50 psf but Office to Grade A spec was £275
how did you value the student accommodation aspect in your oxford development appraisal?
I discussed with a member of my firms capital markets team who is a specialist in this area of property, they advised the applicable market valuation is a fixed per room capital value of £250,000.
what is a development appraisal?
A tool to financially assess the viability of a development scheme
what proportion of the development did you apply the finance rate to?
- Site purchase – (Including purchasers costs) Compounded interest on a straight line basis
- Total construction costs – Calculated on a S curve taking half the costs over the length of the build period.
- Holding over costs – (rates, service charge, interest) compounded interest on a straight line basis
on an S curve basis, applying half the finance rate to reflect when monies would be drawn down