Valuation Flashcards
What 3 things must you do prior to accepting a valuation instruction?
- Check competence
- Independence (CoI)
- ToE (signed before starting work)
What statutory due diligence must be done for valuations?
- Asbestos register
- Flood info
- Planning history
- Environmental credentials (EPC)
What is the timeline of a valuation instruction?
- Check competence
- CoI and CDD
- ToE
- Due diligence on property
- Inspect and measure
- Draft report
- Issue to client
- Issue invoice
What are the 5 methods of valuation?
- Profits
- Residual
- Income
- Comparative
- Contractors (DRC)
What are the 3 valuation approaches under IVS 105
- Income - residual, investment, profits
- Cost - contractors
- Market - comparative
What are the categories of the hierarchy of evidence?
Category A - direct comparables
Category B - general market data
Category C - other sources (stock market, interest rates etc)
When is the investment method used?
When there is an income stream to value.
Is the growth implicit of explicit in the investment method of valuation?
Implicit - an implied growth rate is derived from the market capitalisation rate (yield)
What is the term and reversion method?
Used for reversionary investments (passing rent is lower than MR)
Term capitalised until review / expiry, and reversion to MR valued into perpetuity at reversionary yield (higher to reflect increased risk of not being able to achieve reversion)
Used for over- rented investments (passing rents higher than MR)
Income flow divided horizontally.
Bottom slice = passing rent upto MR
Top slice = passing rent above MR
Higher yield applied to top slice to reflect additional risk.
What is the profits method?
Used for valuations of trade related property where the property is an inherent part of the business
What is the residual method?
Values development land
What is the depreciated replacement cost?
Method of last resort
Not suitable for loan security purposes
How do you calculate Years Purchase?
Dividing 100 by the yield - the number of years to recoup the purchase price
What is the all risks yield?
Used in a valuation of a fully let property let at a market rent reflecting all the prospects and risks attached to an investment.
What is the true yield?
Assumes rent paid in advance
What is the nominal yield?
Assumes rent is paid in arrears (usual in valuation)
What is the gross yield?
Yield not adjusted for purchases costs
What is an initial yield?
Current passing rent divided by a purchase price
What is an equivalent yield?
Average weighted yield between the net initial yield and reversionary yield.
What is the running yield?
The yield at one moment in time
What are the key aspects of a DCF?
- Growth explicit
- Form of income approach valuation
- Determines value through examining future net income or projected cash flow and then discounting the cash flow to arrive at the current value.
What is the internal rate of return
The rate of return at which all future cash flows must be discounted to produce a NPV of zero.
What is a DCF?
Growth explicit model of valuation
Form of income approach
Determines value by examining its projected cash flow and discounting the cash flow to arrive at current value
What is simple method undertaking a DCF?
- Estimate cash flow
- Estimate exit value
- Select discount rate (IRR)
- Discount the cash flow at this rate
- Value is the sum of the discounted cash flow to provide the NPV
What is the IRR?
Rate at which all future cash flows must be discounted to produce a NPV of zero
What is the net present value
Value of all future cash flows (positive and negative) over life of the investment
What is the structure of the RICS Valuation - Global Standards (2021) “global red book”
- Introduction
- Glossary
- Professional standards (PS)
- Valuation technical and performance standards (VPS)
- Valuation applications (VPGAs)
- International Valuation Standards (IVS)
What are the key changes to the updated Red Book?
Terms must provide clarity as towards whether red book compliant or not
Reference to IFRS 13 and IFRS 16 in VPGA1
Increased weighting towards sustainability
What are the RICS Professional Standards?
PS 1 - compliance with standards and practise statements (where a valuation has to be red book compliant)
PS 2 - ethics (members must comply with rules of conduct when valuing)
What are the 5 exemptions to red book valuation?
- Advice in course of litigation
- For statutory functions (except for tax return)
- For internal purposes without liability
- Part of agency or brokerage
- Giving evidence as expert witness
Are the contents of PS 1 and PS 2 mandatory for all valuations?
Yes
What are the valuation technical and performance standards (VPS)?
VPS 1 - Terms of engagement
VPS 2 - inspections
VPS 3 - Valuation reports (IVS 103 reporting)
VPS 4 - Bases of value
VPS 5 - valuation approaches and method