TEGoVA launches European Valuation Standards 2009 helping professionals and clients face the valuation challenges of market volatility and recession.

Market volatility from global banking issues linked to recessionary pressures poses a real challenge for valuers. Addressing this, up-to-date European Valuation Standards help all professionals reach consistent conclusions, assisting confidence in the marketplace.

Valuation is a key issue for the integration of European property markets. Many of the older established economies in Europe have mature property markets. In other countries, markets are still in their infancy and valuation practice is less well established. EVS 2009 offers all valuers a common approach giving the end users of valuations confidence in locally produced reports. The urgent rationale of European standards comes from the demand for valuations which are consistent across Europe, with a quality that can be relied on as a common benchmark by investors, the financial industry and valuers throughout the EU and beyond.

Commenting on the initiative at today’s Warsaw launch gathering valuation professionals from across Europe, Roger Messenger, TEGoVA Chairman, said:

“Real estate is now essential to the whole EU project, which is accelerating in response to the crisis. Moves to open up cross-border investment like the EU REIT, the EU passport for open ended real estate funds and the mortgage credit initiative all have important valuation issues. EVS 2009, compatible with EU law and adapted to the particular circumstances prevailing in Europe, is central to this process, which could see the European Union emerge with the largest and most efficient property market in the world.”

EVS 2009 can be downloaded free of charge, and hard copy can be ordered.