Valuation Flashcards
What is an internal valuer?
”- Employed by a company to value the assets of the company/enterprise
- Valuation for internal use only
- No third-party reliance “
What is an external valuer?
The valuer has no material links with the asset to be valued or the client
What three steps do you need to undertake for valuation work?
“1. Assess your competence
2. Independence - check for any conflicts/personal interests - Who and Why?
3. Agree terms of Engagement “
What should be included in Terms of Engagement for Valuation?
”- Set out in writing your full confirmation of instructions to the client prior to starting work and receive written confirmation of instruction
- Confirm the competence of the valuer
- The extent and limitations of the valuer’s inspection must be stated”
What are the 5 main methods of valuation?
“1. Comparative method
2. Investment method
3. Profits method
4. Residual method
5. Contractors method (Depreciated replacement cost)”
What is net effective rent and how is it calculated?
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What are the different types of methodologies you would use with the investment method?
“1. Conventional
2. Term and reversion
3. Layer/hardcore
4. DCF “
What statutory due diligence do you need to carry out before a valuation?
”- Asbestos register
- Business rates/council tax
- Contamination
- Equality Act 2010 compliance
- Environmental matters (electricity sub stations, power lines etc)
- EPC Ratings if available
- Flooding
- Fire safety compliance
- Health and safety compliance
- Highways (check roads adopted with the local highways agency)
- Legal title and tenure
- Public rights of way”
What is the 16 step timeline of a valuation instruction?
“1. Receive instruction (purpose of valuation)
2. Check competence (SUK)
3. Check independence (conflicts of interest)
4. Issue terms of engagement (CIT)
5. Receive terms of engagement signed by the client
6. Gather information - lease, OS maps etc
7. Undertake due diligence (anything that would adversely impact upon value)
8. Inspect and measure
9. Research market and assemble, verify comparables
10. Undertake valuation
11. Draft report
12. Have valuation and report considered by another surveyor for checking purposes
13. Finalise and sign report
14. Report to client
15. Issue invoice
16. Ensure valuation file in good order order for archiving”
What three valuation approaches are set out in the IVS 105?
“1. Income approach - converting current and future cash flows into a capital value
2. Cost approach - reference to the cost of the asset whether by purchase or construction
3. Market approach - use comparable evidence”
What are the 6 steps of the comparative method of valuation?
“1. Search and select comparables
2. Confirm / verify the details and analyse headline rent to give net effective rent
3. Assemble comparables in schedule
4. Adjust comparables using the hierachy of evidence
5. Analyse comparables to form opinion of value
6. Report value and prepare file note”
What guidance note outlines the principles in the use of comparable evidence?
RICS Guidance Note ‘Comparable Evidence in Real Estate Valuation’ (1st Edition, 2019)
How would you find relevant comparable information?
”- Inspection of an area to find recent market activity by seeking agent’s boards
- Visit/speak to local agents
- Auction results (beware that these are gross prices)
- In house records/databases and websites, such as EGI and Focus
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Why must care be taken if using auction comparables?
There may be a special purchaser or an insolvency sale. The sale price is gross of costs.
What is key when there is no comparable evidence?
Market sentiment
What is the investment method of valuation?
”- Used when there is an income stream to value
- The rental income is capitalised to produce a capital value
- Conventional method assumes growth implicit valuation approach
- An implied growth rate is derived from the market capitalisation rate (yield)”
What is the conventional investment method?
“Rent received/market rent multiplied by the Years purchase (YP) = Market Value
You need good comparables for rent & yield”
What is the Term and Reversion method?
”- Used for reversionary investments (ie when underrented)
- Term capitalised until next lease expiry/rent review at an initial yield
- Reversion to market rent valued in perpetuity at a reversionary yield”
What is the Layer/Hardcore method?
”- Used for overrented investments
- income flow divided horizontally
- Bottom slice = Market Rent
- Top slice = Rent passing less Market Rent until next lease event
- Higher yield applied to Top slice to reflect additional risk
- Different yields used depending on comparable investment evidence and relative risk”
What is ‘Yield’?
A measure of investment return, expressed as a percentage of capital invested
How is Yield calculated?
Income divided by price x 100
Why are there different yields for different uses of property?
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What are current primary and secondary yields for all major use classes?
Prime retail 6% to secondary upwards of 8%
Shopping centres 7.50% to upwards of 9%
Warehouse/industrial 3.00% to 5% upwards
Offices 3.75% to 6.75%
How is Years Purchase calculated?
Dividing 100 by the yield.
What is Years Purchase?
Number of years required for income to repay it’s purchase price
Risk is the major factor when determining yield - what factors can affect risk?
”- Prospects for rental and capital growth
- Quality of location and covenant
- Use of property
- Lease terms
- Obsolescence
- Voids
- Security and regularity of income
- Liquidity (ease of sale)”
What is obsolescence?
Loss of value of real estate property due to factors that are external to the property
What is ‘return’ and how is it calculated and measured?
”- Describes the performance of the property
- Measured retrospectively
- Use a DCF to find the internal rate of return”
Why is there a yield gap between prime and secondary yields ?
“Reflects risk:
Obsolescence
Longer voids
Lower rental growth prospects
Higher maintenance
Lower quality covenant”
What is the All Risks Yield (ARY) and what does it reflect?
- The remunerative rate of interest used in the valuation of fully let property let at Market Rent reflecting all the prospects and risks attached to the particular investment
- Rental valuation of an investment as an annual percentage of the property cost
What is True Yield?
Assumes rent is paid in advance not in arrears (traditional valuation practices assumes rent is paid in arrears)
What is Nominal yield?
Initial yield assuming rent is paid in arrears
What is Gross yield?
The yield not adjusted for purchasers’ costs
What is Equivalent yield?
Average weighted yield when a reversionary property is valued using an initial and reversionary yield
What is initial yield?
Simple income yield for current income and current price
What is reversionary yield?
Market rent (MR) divided by current price on an investment let at a rent below the MR
What is the running yield?
The yield at one moment in time
What is a Discounted Cash Flow (DCF)?
”- A growth explicit investment method of valuation
- DCF valuation involves projecting estimated cash flows over an assumed investment holding period, plus an exit value at the end of that period, usually arrived at on a conventional ARY basis.
- The cash flow is then discounted back to the present day at a discount rate that reflects the perceived level of risk
- Separates out and explicitly identifies growth assumptions rather than incorporating them within an ARY”
What is a Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) used for?
”- Used for a number of valuations where the projected cash flows are explicitly estimated over a finite period, such as for:
1. Short leaseholds and properties with income voids and complex tenures
2. Phased development projects
3. Non standard investments (say with 21 year rent reviews) “
What is a simple methodology when trying to find the market value via a DCF?
“1. Estimate the cash flow (Income less expenditure)
2. Estimate the exit value at the end of the holding period
3. Select the discount rate
4. Discount cash flow at discount rate
5. Value is the sum of the completed discounted cash flow to provide the NPV”
What is Net Present Value (NPV)?
” The sum of the discounted cash flows of the project
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What can NPV be used to determine?
If an investment gives a positive return against a target rate of return
What does a positive and negative NPV equal?
”- Positive: the investment has exceeded the investor’s tagret rate of return
- Negative: it has not achieved the investor’s target rate of return “
What is Internal rate of return (IRR)?
The rate of return at which all future cashflows must be discounted to produce a NPV of Zero
What is IRR used for?
To assess the total return from an investment opportunity making some assumptions regarding rental growth, re-letting and exit assumptions
What technique can be used to calculate the IRR if no software programme is available?
Linear interpolation
How do you calculate the IRR?
“1. Input the current market value as a negative cash flow
2. Input projected rents over holding period as a positive value
3. Input projected exit value at the end of the term assumed as a positive value
4. Discount rate (IRR) is the rate chosen which provides a NPV of Zero
5. If NPV is more than 0, then the target rate of return is met”
Do the RICS have a guidance note for DCF?
RICS Guidance Note ‘Discounted cash flow for commercial property investments in 2010’
What is the purpose of the Profits method of valuation?
”- Used for valuations of trade related property, where there is a ‘monopoly’ position
- Used where the value of the property depends upon the profitabilty of its business and its trading potential
- Used for pubs, petrol stations, hotels, guest houses, children’s nurseries, leisure and healthcare properties and care homes”
What is the purpose of the Profits method of valuation?
”- Used for valuations of trade related property, where there is a ‘monopoly’ position
- Used where the value of the property depends upon the profitabilty of its business and its trading potential
- Used for pubs, petrol stations, hotels, guest houses, children’s nurseries, leisure and healthcare properties and care homes”
What is the purpose of the Profits method of valuation?
”- Used for valuations of trade related property, where there is a ‘monopoly’ position
- Used where the value of the property depends upon the profitabilty of its business and its trading potential
- Used for pubs, petrol stations, hotels, guest houses, children’s nurseries, leisure and healthcare properties and care homes”
What is the basic principle of the Profits method of valuation?
The value of the property depends on the profit generated from the business, not the physical building or location
What do you need to carry out a Profits method of valuation?
”- Accurate and audited accounts for 3 years
- For a new business, estimates/business plan
- Adjust for maturity of business and any unacceptable or exceptional items of expenditure”
What is the simple methodology for carrying out the Profits method of valuation?
”- Take annual turnover (income)
Less cost/purchases
= Gross profit
Less reasonable working expenses
= Unadjusted net profit
Less operator’s remuneration
= Adjusted net profit known as the Fair Maintainable Operating Profit (FMOP)
This can be expressed as EBITDA - Earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation and amortisation
- Capitalise at appropriate yield to achieve market value
- Cross check with comparable sales evidence if possible “
What is a development appraisal used for?
”- A tool to financially assess the viability of a development scheme
- Can be used to establish a residual site value
- Can be used to assess the profitability of a proposed scheme plus sensitivity to changing inputs”
What is a development appraisal?
”- A calculation or series of calculations to establish the value/viability/profitability/suitability of a proposed development based upon the client’s inputs
- Can assume a site value or calculate a site value
- Provides guidance as to the viability of the proposed development “
What is a residual site valuation?
”- Method of valuing land based on its development potential
A form of development appraisal
- Can be based on a simple residual valuation or the DCF method
- All inputs are always taken at the date of valuation”
- GDV subtract TDC (Build costs+Fees+Profit)
What is the purpose of the residual site valuation?
Specific valuation of a property holding to find the market value of the site based on market inputs
What is the methodology for a Residual Site Valuation?
“Gross Development Value (GDV) (Capital Value of a Completed Scheme)
- Market Value of completed proposed development at today’s date/date of valuation
- Use plans if needed and measure on CAD (take measurements if you can)
- Valued at current date assuming present values and market conditions
- Comparable method of valuation used to establish rents and yields
- All Risks Yield used
- An allowance of a rent-free period or tenant’s incentives and marketing void can be assumed
- Purchaser’s costs are usually deducted for commercial property valuations”
What are total development costs (TDC)?
”- Site preparation including: Demolition, remediation, landfill tax, provision of services, site clearance, levelling and fencing
- Obtain a contractor’s cost plan for these works”
What are examples of planning costs?
”- Section 106 (Town and Country Planning Act 1990) - a legal agreement for planning obligations to gain a planning consent
- Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) is charged by most LPAs
- Local planning policy will set out the required percentage of affordable housing required for a new residential developments
- Section 278 payments for highway works
- Planning application and building regulation fees
- Cost of a planning consultant
- Cost of any specialist reports required by the LPA “
What is a Section 106 agreement?
A legal contract between property developers and local planning authorities that outlines obligations that the developer must undertake to reduce impacts on nearby communities
What are examples of building costs?
”- Client information
- Spons Architects and Builders Price Book
- Quantity Surveyor estimate /bill of quantities/cost plan
- Building Surveyor estimate
- RICS Building Cost Information Service (BCIS) usually based on a GIA basis
- BCIS obtains updates from QS/BS sources and recent contract prices/tenders agreed”
How much are professional fees and what are some examples?
”- 10-15% plus VAT of total construction costs for the professional fees for architects, M&E consultants, project managers, structural engineers etc
- CDM Principal Design costs
- Architects usually the largest proportion “
What % contingency should you build in to your appraisal?
5-10% construction costs depending upon level of risk and inflation
What are the three elements of finance a developer will need to borrow money for?
“1. Site purchase (including purchaser costs) - compound interest
2. Total construction and associated costs - half costs taken over the length of the build programme
3. Holding costs to cover voids until the disposal of the scheme (rates, rent, service charge) - compound interest”
What is Developer’s profit?
”- % of GDV or total construction cost
- Or alternatively profit required is to base it on the return upon capital employed “
How do you calculate the site value?
Deduct the TDC from the GDV
What are the two main methods of funding when it comes to development finance?
“1. Debt finance - lending money from a bank
2. Equity finance - selling shares in a company or a joint venture partnership”
What is typical Loan to Value ratio?
Typically in the region of 60%
What is senior debt?
The first level of borrowing which takes precedence over secondary /mezzanine funding
What is mezzanine funding?
Additional funding for additional monies required over the normal LTV
Is VAT payable on all professional fees?
Yes
What are the limitations of residual valuation methodology and financial modelling?
”- Accurate information and inputs important
- It does not consider timing of cash flows
- Very sensitive to minor adjustments
- Implicit assumptions hidden - not as explicit as DCF
- Always needs cross checking with comparable site valuation if possible “
What is a sensitivity analysis required for?
Key variables such as GDV, build costs, and the finance rates to show range of values
What does RICS Guidance Note ‘Valuation of Development Property’, 1st Edition 2019 (effective from 1st Februaury 2020) supplement?
IVS 410
What does IVS 410 provide a detailed overview of?
Valuation of development property
What is the Depreciated replacement cost (DRC) method of valuation also known as?
The Contractors method
When the DRC method of valuation be used?
”- Direct market evidence is limited or unavailable
- Specialised properties including sewage works, light houses etc”
Whats the purpose of the DRC method of valuation?
”- Owner occupied property
- Accounts purposes for specialised properties
- Rating Valuations for specialised properties”
What is the simple methodology of the DRC valuation method?
”- Value of land in it’s existing use (assuming planning permission exists
- Add current cost of replacing the building plus fees less a discount for depreciation & obsolescene/deterioration”
What are the different types of obsolescence?
”- Physical (wear and tear)
- Functional (design no longer fulfills function)
- Economic (changing market conditions for use of the asset)”
How should the DRC be used?
”- It is not suitable for Red Book Global compliant valuation for secured lending purposes
- Can be used for the calculation of Market Value for specialised properties but only for valuations for financial statements
- A DRC valuation undertaken in the private sector should be accompanied by a statement that it is subject to adequate profitability of the business
- Re public sector should be accompanied by a statement that it is subject to the prospect and viability of the continued occupation and use”
What is the guidance note for the DRC method?
RICS Guidance Note on Depreciated replacement cost method of valuation for financial reporting, 2018
What is the latest Red Book and when is it effective from?
RICS Valuation - Global Standards 2021 (Red Book Global), effective 31st January 2022
What was the previous edition of the Red Book?
RICS Valuation Global Standards 2020
What are the contents and structure of the Red Book?
“Part 1 - Introduction
Part 2 - Glossary
Part 3 - Professional Standards (PS)
Part 4 - Valuation technical and performance standards (VPS)
Part 5 - Valuation applications (VPGA)
Part 6 - The International Valuation Standards (IVS)”
What are the main changes from the previous edition of the Red Book?
“1. Need for compliance with RBG and adequate Terms of Reference to reflect this (PS 1 and VPS 1)
2. Valuation for financial reporting purposes (VPGA 1 - references to IFRS 13 and 16)
3. Reference to the use of the profits method for certain trade-related property valuations (VPGA 4), eg flexi workspace
4. Sustainability and ESG factors
- definitions in glossary
- inspections and reporting, VPS 2 and VPS 3. Valuers should have regard to ESG and sustainability factors and should form integral part of valuation approach
- Valuation for secured lending purposes (VPGA 2). Note that ESG and Sustainabilty factors should form integral part of valuation approach
- Direct and indirect valuation reference, and physical and transition risks (VPGA 8)
- Definitions and scope of valuations contained within the IVS”