On the 2nd of July 2025, I had the opportunity to participate as a speaker in the webinar organised by RICS, entitled “Valuer Registration: Red Book Compliance”. The session was held within the scope of the Valuer Registration programme, which aims to ensure that registered valuers comply with the requirements of the Red Book Global…
Within the scope of the Post-Graduation in “Real Estate Management and Appraisal” at ISG, in partnership with ASAVAL, a seminar on the topic “Economic framework of asset valuation tourist properties”, was held last Friday, March 19, 2021 with the presentation of Gilberto Martins. Gilberto Martins is an economist, Master in Tourism and consultant in the…
Which leads us to write again about the “Forced Sale” is a … incomprehension! It has been recurrent that public bodies, in the evaluation of properties owned by them, ask the external valuer that, in addition to the market value, also estimate “Forced Sale Value” (FSV). Forced Sale Value This concept is addressed both in…
We have not advised our readers to buy a book for some time. There has been no great editorial news, namely of importance for the expert property appraiser, so we will remember a very interesting book, with a lot of interest in property valuation, which has the title “Statistics, many applications and other formulas …” ISBN…
This website must be registered in our “browsers” and visited frequently: https://www.hvs.com/It is a tool of great interest to the real estate appraiser, as it provides credible information about “hospitality”. HVS is a global consulting company, with more than 300 people in 50 offices, all over the world, with experience in everything related to “hospitality”:…
The evaluation of shopping centers is an extremely complex matter for the real estate appraiser, as it is necessary to keep in mind a set of concepts specific to this commercial activity and, also, due to the lack of available information. We have already addressed this theme in the article “Shopping Centers”, in which, according…
We have already written several times about the evaluation of hotel units, highlighting our articles: Assessment of investments in hospitality; The brands in hospitality. Understanding that this topic is very interesting for any real estate appraiser, we wander the network in search of more information that we could share. That is how we found the…
I believe that the publication of Decree Law 29/2020 of 29 June, “Pair to Order”, was unnoticed. We would also unnoticed it if had it not been for the kindness of Francisco Campos, a geographic engineer, whom we are grateful to have informed us about. This decree is very interesting for four reasons: Promoting land…
We have always been affirming in previous articles the importance of correctly reporting the real estate areas, in a job that must be very well scrutinized by colleagues in real estate mediation. Reporting property areas correctly is not only important for the real estate appraiser, but also for all stakeholders in the real estate business….
A friend told us, during a meeting that has been religiously fulfilled, for five years, every Friday at eight in the morning (the meeting lasts two hours), that our last article, entitled “Is the history of the properties of Novo Banco really like that? ”, was very innocent. If we understand correctly, we were innocent…