FIG Commission 9 - Valuation and the Management of Real Estate |
||||||||||||||
 |
||||||||||||||
NewsCommission 9 video for FIG Congress 2026 |
||||||||||||||
 |
The General Assembly
elected Mr. Peter Ache
from Germany, DVW, as
the Chair Elect of Commission 9, the elected Chair Elect
term as the Chair of the Commission will be initiated at the
FIG Congress 2022 for the period 2023-2026. |
In the report from the General Assemble, you can also access the video presentation of the Candidate, Mr. Peter Ache.
August 2021
The Working Week took place online 20-25 June 2021. Commission 9 held its annual meeting with outset in their prepared Report and Agenda.
Commission 9 was also involved in sessions covering Commission 9 areas within the theme of Smart Surveyors for Land and Water Management.
To read more about Working Week 2021, the full report FIG e-Working Week 2021 is available.
February 2021
The article was published in GIM International. As the FIG commission chairs are near the halfway point in their terms, they reflect on the global and technological drivers influencing their work. This article describes the breadth of work across the FIG commissions as well as the common areas. The discussion is also informed by global reports such as the UN-GGIM’s Future Trends in Geospatial Information Management and the RICS Futures Report 2020. Enjoy the article
May 2020
During the conference days a range of articles highlighting the hot-topics, the ground breaking research, and the hidden gems in the proceedings was published.
There were 3 technical sessions planed and a major initiative to contribute to a UN Habitat project focused on attempting to develop a manual and due diligence protocol for the ‘Valuation of Unregistered Lands and Informal Property’. Read the article.
March 2020
It is with deep sadness and heavy hearts that we announce the cancellation of this year’s FIG Working Week in Amsterdam due 10-14 May.
This is not a decision we have taken lightly and there are two overriding concerns that have caused us to make this decision at this time.
First, the Dutch Government announced new measurements to control the COVID-19 outbreak. In the Netherlands all gatherings are prohibited until 1 June.
Second, our primary concern is always the wellbeing of you, and we would not take on the responsibility, during these times, to bring so many surveyors from all over the world together.
March 2020
FIG Commission 9 has prepared a written report to the General assembly.
The full agenda is available
The General Assembly has been cancelled and postponed to 2021.
February 2020
The theme Smart Surveyors for Land and Water Management is both relevant in a world where drinking water is a scarce resource, waste water needs to be recycled rather than seen as waste, where the sea needs to be better mapped and managed, where land resources need to be protected against sea-level rise, and where land-based fresh water habitats are threatened.
Commission 9 is planning the following sessions:
The Working Week took place in Hanoi, Vietnam 22-26 April 2019. Commission 9 held its yearly meeting and was involved in several sessions covering the commission 9 areas.
The commission 9 Newsletter include activities that FIG Commission 9 has been involved in from second half of 2017 to June 2018, incl commission 9 at FIG Congress 2018 in Istanbul, Turkey.
Working Group 9.2 - Valuation and Real estate management through Fin-tech focuses on fourth generation technologies used by the World Bank’s approach to land engagement. Blockchain technology has been hailed by custodians as being the future of the real estate management industry with potential to streamline processes such as land and property registration, valuation of property and many more digital actions. This could increase efficiency throughout the operation of land markets, impacting both both public and private purposes.
FIG has been appointed one of the five Liaison Organisations to ISO TC 307 on blockchains and distributed ledger technologies (DLTs).
The Commission 9 Newsletter includes report from FIG Working Week 2017, an update on upcoming and past events and on the Working Groups of commission 9:
Commission 9 had its annual meeting during the FIG Working Week 2017 in Helsinki, Finland 29 May - 2 June 2017
Commission chairs 2015-2018 at their meeting during the FIG
Working Week, 29 May-2 June in Helsinki, Finland: Remy Boudon(comm. 6) Volker
Schwieger (comm. 5), See Lian ONG (comm. 10), Angela Etuonovbe
(comm. 4), Steven Nystrom (comm. 9), Kwame Tenadu (comm. 8),
Enrico Rispoli (comm. 3), Gerda Schennach (comm. 7), Fahria Masum(comm. 2), Brian J.
Coutts (comm. 1)
This questionnaire that has been developed by representatives from Commission 7 and 9 who are seeking input regarding the LADM expansion module. This is an ongoing research which aims at developing a LADM based international information model for property valuation, namely an ISO LADM Valuation Module for the specification of registries used in immovable property valuation.
Read more and fill in the questionnare:
Deadline 20 January 2017
Working Group 9.2 has been changed. The new Work Group is called: Valuation and Real estate management through Fin-tech. This working group focuses on fourth generation technologies used by the World Bank’s approach to land engagement. Blockchain technology has been hailed by custodians as being the future of the real estate management industry with potential to streamline processes such as land and property registration, valuation of property and many more digital actions. This could increase efficiency throughout the operation of land markets, impacting both both public and private purposes.
November 2016
Be updated with the lates news from Commission 9 recent activities and plans.
Commission 9 had its annual meeting during the FIG Working Week 2016 in Christchurch, New Zealand, 2-6 May 2016
Commission chairs 2015-2018 at their meeting during the FIG Working
Week, 2-6 May 2016 in Christchurch, New Zealand: Brian J. Coutts (comm. 1), E.M.C.
(Liza) Groenendijk (comm. 2), Enrico
Rispoli (comm. 3), Angela Etuonovbe
(comm. 4), Volker Schwieger (comm. 5), Diane Dumashie (Vice
president), Ivo
Milev (comm. 6)., Gerda Schennach
(comm. 7), Steven Nystrom (comm. 9), See Lian ONG
(comm. 10) and Eva-Maria Unger (YSN)
 Mr. Steven Nystrom and FIG President Dr. Chryssy Potsiuo |
Unfortunately the Chair of Commission
9, Dr. Liao Junping, had to make the
sad decision to step down as chair. FIG Council thanked
him for the work he has done until now for FIG at the
General Assembly in Sofia, Bulgaria. The
matter was discussed in FIG Council as well as at the
Commission 9 Meeting, and the Council hereafter decided
to appoint Mr Steven Nystrom, NCSP, US,
as Chair of Commission 9 for the rest of the term
2015-2018. Mr Steven Nystrom received
the FIG bronze pin - at the General Assembly - as
symbol of his appointment.
|
FIG is a founder member of the International Property Measurement Standard Coalition. Chair of Commission 9, Frances Plimmer is FIG contact person to the coalition. The aim of the Coalition is to enable properties to be measured on a transparent basis that promotes market efficiency through greater confidence between investors, occupiers and funds. The growth of cross-border property investment and expansion by global corporate occupiers underpins the demand for transparency against the background of many differing national and local measurement conventions.
With the implementation of international property measurement standards, properties will be consistently measured, creating a more transparent market, greater public trust, stronger investment confidence and market stability.
The Coalition?s Standard Setting Committee, which was established last year in Washington DC, has produced a consultation document which is available at: http://ipmsc.org/consultation/ as are details of the consultation process itself. If you have any comments please contact Chair of FIG Commission 9, Frances Plimmer.
The Coalition comprises twenty eight organisations from across the world and there are opportunities for additional organisations to ?get involved?. Please visit the website at http://ipmsc.org/ for further information about this and other IPMS matters.
Press release on the International Property Measurement Standards Coalition, 13 January 2014
Commission 9 had its annual meeting during the
FIG Working Week 2013 in Abuja, Nigeria, 6-10 May 2013. Commission 9 report
|
The former commission 9 chairman Bruce Harding from USA passed away on January 20, 2013. He was born in 1931 and was commission 9 chairman during the Finnish presidency 1988-1991. Bruce was a good man and devoted appraiser and run during his time Harding Appraisal Co Eng. in Sebastopol, Ca. As the commission 9 chairman Brue was a modest man but made a good job.
Juha Talvitie and Frances Plimmer
|
|
Commission 9 had its annual meeting during the FIG Working Week 2012 in Rome, Italy, 6-10 May 2012. The General Assembly appointed Prof. Liao Junping (Patrick) from China PR as the Chair Elect of Commission 9 for 2013-2014.
|
FIG Commission 9 Workshop on International Workshop on Mass Appraisal Systems is taking place at at Neapolis University, Paphos 14-16 September 2012. The Workshop is organised by FIG Commission 9, Cyprus Association of Property Valuers and Neapolis University Pafos.
- Commission 9 Annual Report for the General Assembly (pdf) - End of term report 2007-2010
- Commission 9 Work Plan 2011-2014 (pdf)
- Report of the FIG General Assembly 2011
- Report of the FIG Working Week
- Picture Gallery
- Proceedings
|
|
Commission 9 had its meeting during the FIG Congress 2010 in Sydney, Australia, 11-16 April 2010. The General Assembly appointed Dr. Frances Plimmer from United Kingdom as the Chair of Commission 9 for 2011-2014.
|
 |
Commission 9 had an active programme and fairly high attendance in Eilat. In addition to the General Assembly the Working Groups 9.1 (Compulsory
Purchase and Compensations in Land Acquisition and Takings), 9.3 (Diagnostic
Tools and Prescriptive Practices for the Valuation Profession) and 9.5 (GIS-analyses
in Real Estate Market Analyses and Valuation) had their own meetings.
Working Group 9.2 (Improving Slum Conditions through Innovative
Financing) has in practice completed its work along with the Stockholm
Conference and the World Urban Forum in Nanjing in 2008. Working Group
9.4 (Review of Valuation Methods and Standards Worldwide) has not been
active this year. Report of the Annual General Assembly is attached. |
On grounds of the discussions at the Working Group 9.1 meeting a questionnaire was addressed in the summer of 2009 to the representatives of Commissions 7 to 9, academic members, participants in the Helsinki 2007 Seminar and some other experts on Good Practices for Compulsory Purchase and Takings. The outcome will be presented and discussed at the Hanoi Conference in October 2009. The aim is to prepare FIG recommendations on good practices for compulsory purchase and compensations to be published at the Sydney Conference in 2010. In the Hanoi programme Commission 9 has three sessions for paper presentations and a meeting of the Working Group 9.1.
Kauko Viitanen
Chair of FIG Commission 9
Commission 9 together with Commissions 7 and 8 has made a questionnaire on Good practices for compulsory purchase and takings. Deadline for replies has passed but you can still see the invitation and reply to the questionnaire.
  |
The Joint Seminar on Appraisal and Property Protection was organised in Beijing, China P. R. 18-19 October 2008 by the China Institute of Real Estate Appraisers and Agents (CIREA), The Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors (HKIS) and the International Federation of Surveyors, FIG Commission 9 - Valuation and the Management of Real Estate in co-operation with FIG Commission 8 - Spatial Planning and Development. The major goal of this seminar was to intensify the discussion between valuers, surveyors, real estate experts, investors, financiers, urban planners, researchers, teachers and decision makers and develop common ideas for shaping the future. Report of the seminar is available. |
Seminar on State and Public Land Management was organised in Verona, Italy, September 9-10, 2008 by FIG Commission 7 (Cadastre & Land Management) and the Consiglio Nazionale Geometri (CNG), in co-operation with FIG Commission 9 and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations? (FAO) Land Tenure and Management Unit.
Web site: www.collegio.geometri.vr.it/seminar/ and report
Commission 9 Annual Meeting was held in Stockholm, Sweden
during the FIG Working Week 2008, 14-19 June 2008, web site of the
conference: www.fig.net/fig2008.
Proceedings, technical sessions and papers
Commission
9 Annual Report for the General Assembly as a .pdf-file.
The Seminar on Compulsory Purchase and Compensation in Land Acquisition and Takings takes place September 6th to 8th 2007, in Helsinki, Finland. The seminar is organised by FIG Commission 9 in conjunction to the Baltic Valuation Conference and in co-operation with FIG Commissions 7 and 8, FAO?s Land Tenure Service, World Bank, Finnish Association for Real Estate Valuation, Finnish Association of Surveyors, Ministry of Agriculture and Forest in Finland, National Land Survey in Finland, Nordic Journal of Surveying and Real Estate Research and Helsinki University of Technology/Department of Surveying.
The major goal is to intensify the discussion between valuers,
surveyors, real estate experts, financiers, urban planners, researchers,
teachers and decision makers and develop common ideas for shaping the
future.
There are two possibilities for submitting a paper and giving a
presentation:
? Case studies, project presentations etc. (non-reviewed-papers)
? Scientific papers (reviewed papers)
Seminar home page: http://www.tkk.fi/Yksikot/Kiinteisto/FIG/index.htm
Prof.
Kauko Viitanen from the
Helsinki University of Technology,
Department of Surveying from Finland was appointed by the General Assembly
in Athens as the Chair Elect of Commission 9 for 2004-2006. He will be
the chair of the commission 2006-2010.
In September Simon Adcock, Vice Chair of FIG Commission 9 participated at the 46th Annual Congress of the International Federation for Housing and Planning (IFHP) in Tianjin in north-west China. Of the 800 plus delegates, approximately 300 were international delegates.
Simon Adcock, on behalf of FIG Commission 9, conducted a workshop session entitled GIS Application for Strategies in Urban Planning. This workshop covered GIS Application in both ?two? and ?three? dimensional urban planning, computer assistance mapping of data, analysis of data, quality control and display outcomes. The 3-D section covered development project analysis and appraisals.
To read more please click for the report in .pdf-format.
The Appraisal Journal is a peer-reviewed quarterly journal for real estate appraisers. Nancy Bannon, the recently appointed Senior Editor of the journal is offering and encourage FIG valuers and Commission 9 members to submit articles for consideration for publication in The Appraisal Journal.
The Journal's articles examine issues related to real estate value, taxation, government regulation, business enterprise valuation, and commercial transactions, with a special focus on valuation processes and techniques.
The contact information is:
Nancy K. Bannon
Senior Editor
The Appraisal Journal
Appraisal Institute
550 W. Van Buren St., Suite 1000
Chicago, IL 60607
T 312-335-4445
F 312-335-4222
nbannon[at]appraisalinstitute.org
www.appraisalinstitute.org
