ASOCIACIÓN PROFESIONAL DE SOCIEDADES DE VALORACIÓN (ATASA)
Professional Association of Valuation Companies of Spain
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ATASA is the only valuation association in Spain formed by 40 valuation companies representing 10.000 valuers.
The Member
Coordinates

C/ Recoletos 3
E-28001 Madrid

Tel: +34 91 577 13 51
Fax: +34 91 575 45 94

Structure

President: TINSA TASACIONES INMOBILIARIAS S.A. (Luis Leirado Campo)
Vice-President: ALIA TASACIONES S.A. (Federico Candela Durá)
Directors: EUROVALORACIONES S.A. (José Vázquez Seijo); TÉCNICOS EN TASACIÓN S.A. (Jesús Rodríguez Estrada); TASACIONES HIPOTECARIAS S.A. (Gustavo Saiz Robres); KRATA S.A. (Íñigo Amiano Begara); VALORACIONES MEDITERRÁNEO S.A. (José María Santiago); INTERNACIONAL DE TRANSACCIONES Y SERVICIOS S.A. (José A. López Torralba); VALTECNIC S.A. (Estanislao de la Quadra-Salcedo); TASACIONES ANDALUZAS S.A. (Adolfo Sicilia de Oña)
Managing Director:: Leandro Escobar Torres
Secretariat: 4 staff

Number of Direct Members: 40 valuation companies
Number of qualified valuers (individuals): 10.000 through valuation companies
Number of valuation companies: 40

Member of TEGoVA since: founding member
Category of embership: Full

Permanent Representative to TEGoVA
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Leandro S. Escobar Torres
Managing Director

Tel: +34 91 577 13 51
Fax: +34 91 575 45 94
Mob: +34650137283

Brief History and Role

With almost a quarter of a century of existence, ATASA is the only valuation association in Spain.

The activity of its 40 members represents around 95% of the whole regulated-purposes valuation industry, in terms of number of reports (more than 1.2 million per year) and turnover (more than € 450M per year).

ATASA’s main goal is to enhance the prestige and quality of the valuation works performed by Spanish valuation companies.

Principal Activities

• Conduct: ethics-related cases, mediation and arbitration between members.
• Institutional: national and international relations.
• Communication: internal and external communication; mass media; news.
• Technical: technical papers; answers to technical questions; assessment of legal bills.
• Statistics: annual survey; quarterly recompilation of activity (number of reports, valued amount, surface area where applicable); quarterly recompilation of valuation information for joint database.
• Education: research and development; publications; courses.

Principal Areas of Policy

• Conduct
• Institutional
• Communication
• Technical
• Statistics
• Education
• EU Affairs

Organisation

• General Assembly.
• Board of Directors. One chairman (also Chairman of GA), one vice-chairman and eight further members.
• Commissions: Ethics; Institutional; Technical; Statistical; Educational + ad hoc Commissions (Congress, Statutes, Mortgage Market, Investment Trusts, Business Assets, Professional Relations, etc.).
• Staff: Managing Director (also Secretary General); IT/Statistics; Technician; Administrative.

Membership Includes

40 valuation companies.

Publications


• BOOKS:
- EVS 1997 (Spanish version)
- EVS 2003 (Spanish version)
- IVS 2005 (Spanish version)
- IVS 2007 (Spanish version) – coming soon
- EVS 2009 (Spanish version) – coming soon

• Revista ATASA (ATASA magazine), 3 issues per year. Fixed sections: Briefs, Economic analysis, International, Interview, Innovation, Valuation Industry in Numbers, Regulations.
Latest issues:
- Issue 34 (March 2009)
- Issue 33 (October 2008)
- Issue 32 (May 2008)
- Issue 31 (December 2007)

• Guías ATASA (ATASA Guides):
1. Basic account concepts
• Basic fiscal concepts (coming soon)
• Basic concepts on valuation companies (coming soon)

• Technical papers:
- Code of Ethics
- Standards of good practice (coming soon)
- Measurement standards

Other

• Common valuation database (more than 8 million registers since the year 2000).

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