Valuations Flashcards
What is an internal valuer
- Employed by company to value their assets
- For internal purposes only
- No 3rd party reliance
What is an external valuer?
Has no material link with the asset to be valued or the client
What is a yield and how is it calculated?
A measure of investment return expressed a % of capital invested
Income divided by price multiplied by 100
What is YP and how is it calculated?
100 divided by yield
This is the number of years required for an investments income to repay its purchase price
Talk me through the timeline of a valuation instruction
Receive instructions from client
Competence
Independence
ToE
Gather and review info (statutory DD, lease plans etc)
Check that there are no matters that can affect value
Inspect and measure
Research market and assemble comps
Undertake valuation
Compile report
Check
Send to client
Bill
What makes a good comp?
An accurate assessment of the market. A good comp is: similar property, with full and accurate info available, completed and recent transaction.
What is the hierarchy of evidence, can you please talk about it?
Outlines the relative weight attached to different types of evidence, 3 categories:
Category A- direct comparables, competed transactions, similar properties, full and accurate info, such as recent OMLs, LRs or RRs.
Category B- general market data used for guidance only, such as information from commercial databases or historic evidence
Category C- other sources. Transactional evidence from other real estate types and locations, background data such as interest rates and stock market movements.
3 factors that affect value?
Location, spec, tenant lease terms
What are the two most important things that impact the capitalisation rate of a yield?
Income Profile and Location
Valuation uncertainty – how has covid impacted valuation?
I didn’t undertake any formal valuation work during the height of the pandemic, however I am aware that CBRE introduced a policy of ensuring that COVID-19 disclaimers and caveats went into all ToEs to reflect the unpredictability if the market.
When and how would you undertake a profits method valuation?
Used where the value of the property depends on the profitability of the business and its trading potential, eg: pubs, petrol stations, hotels
Annual turnover – costs = gross profit
Gross profit – reasonable working expenses = net profit
Unadjusted net profit – operators renumeration = fair maintainable operating profit (FMOP)
FMOP capitalised using appropriate yield (YP) to achieve market rent
When and how would you undertake a DRC valuation?
Used for owner-occupied properties, or for specialised property types
Two steps:
Value the land it its existing use (assume it has PP)
Add cost of replacing the building plus fees less a discount for deterioration (get from BCIS)
How would you undertake the comparative method of valuation?
Search and select comps
Confirm/ verify details and calculate net effective rent
Assemble comps into a schedule
Adjust using hierarchy of evidence
Analyse comps to form opinion of value
Report value
When and how would you undertake a conventional method investment valuation?
Used when there is an income stream to value (investment method generally)
Rental income used to produce a capital value
Rent received or market rent multiplied by YP = market value
Importance of good rent a yield comps
When and how would you undertake a term and reversion investment valuation?
Used for reversionary (under-rented) investments
Term capitalised until next review or LEX at an initial yield
Reversion to market rent valued in perpetuity at a reversionary yield
When and how would you undertake a layer/hardcore investment valuation?
Used for over-rented 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
When would you undertake a DCF investment valuation?
Short leaseholds
Phased development projects
Non-standard investments
When and how would you undertake a residual method valuation?
Used to assess the financial viability of a development scheme
GDV (=total cap val of completed scheme)
Minus costs (build costs pro fess etc) and developers profit = NDV
NDV – purchasers’ costs = value
Why is there a difference between prime and secondary yields?
The difference between prime and secondary yields reflects the differing degrees of risks for each properties including likelihood of voids, quality of location and prospects for rental and capital growth.
What is an Equivalent Yield?
Time weighted average yield between an initial yield and a reversionary yield