Work plans – Commission 9
Title
Valuation and the Management of Real Estate
  G Michael
Yovino-Young, Chairperson of Commission 9 
Terms of Reference
  - Valuation - the estimating of value of real 
  estate by valuers and appraisers for various purposes including market value, 
  property taxation, eminent domain, claims of damage or impact on value by some 
  cause or event, and acquisitions for public use or public policy 
  
 - Investment market value and investment planning 
  
 - Development finance, land use feasibility planning 
  
 - Management of property, as a single asset or by 
  management companies 
  
 - Management of property systems to ensure efficient use of 
  public and private resources 
  
 - Management of public sector property. 
  
Mission Statement
  - Identify valuers and appraisers in emerging economies and 
  developing countries and co-ordinate their activities with those of FIG.
  
 - Increase FIG members' participation in valuation theory 
  and methodologies, especially in countries without established real estate 
  market protocols and infrastructure.
  
 - Liaise with other appraisal and valuation organizations 
  and co-operate on matters of mutual interest.
  
 - Create, refine and expand a world dictionary for valuers 
  and appraisers.
  
 - Investigate new evidence of the influence of 
  environmental hazards on property use, value, and demand. 
  
 
Working Group 9.1
Title
Education and training of valuers in developing 
economies 
Policy Issues
      
  - Disparities and deficiencies in educational programmes.
  
 - Valuation training. 
  
Chair
Bill Rodney (UK). 
Specific projects
      
        - Distribute Commission 9 syllabus guidelines ratified by the 
FIG XX congress in 1994.
 
        - Compile a selected bibliography of literature in the 
field.
 
        - Investigate possible academic links.
 
       
Workshop(s)
Contributions to technical programmes forming part of FIG 
working weeks, 1999, 2000, 2001. 
Publication(s)
      
        - Report on core curriculum - survey and model (possibly) (by 
the commission).
 
        - Report on educational programmes - survey of sources 
(possibly) (by the commission).
 
       
Timetable
      
        - Reports - to be advised.
 
        - Working group final report, FIG congress, 
2002.
 
       
Beneficiaries
FIG member associations, other involved professional 
organisations, international agencies. 
 
Working Group 9.2
Title
Environmental influences on real estate 
Policy issues
      
  - Creating a global awareness of the negative influences of 
  contamination and ecological degradation.
  
 - Requirements for new training and protocols for valuation 
  practitioners. 
  
Chair
Michael Yovino-Young. 
Specific projects
      
        - Investigate and catalogue types, extents and impacts of 
contamination of real estate.
 
        - Identify resources available for practitioners including 
bibliographies, source organizations, remediation industry programmes, 
procedures, protocols, and related cost criteria.
 
       
Workshop(s)
Contributions to technical programmes forming part of FIG 
working weeks, 1999, 2000, 2001. 
Publication(s)
Report on results of work group investigations and reports 
(by the commission). 
Timetable
      
        - Report of results of investigations and reports, 
2000.
 
        - Working group final report, FIG congress, 
2002.
 
       
Beneficiaries
FIG member associations, other international and national 
professional organizations, international agencies, 
governments. 
 
Working Group 9.3
Title
Research funding 
Policy Issues
      
        - Seeking sources of funding for research and delivery of 
papers.
 
        - Encouraging participation in Commission 9’s educational 
presentations at FIG working weeks.
 
       
Chair
Simon Adcock (Australia). 
Specific Project(s)
n/a 
Workshop(s)n/a 
Publication(s)
Annual report on names of recipients, amounts of grants, 
subjects of research papers, where presented, availability. 
Timetable
See publications. 
Beneficiaries
FIG members and other 
academics/practitioners. 
 
Working Group 9.4
Title
Promoting valuation membership of FIG 
Policy issues
The under-representation of valuation organisations within 
FIG. 
Chair
David Millard (USA). 
Specific projects
      
  - Identify groups and organisations of valuers/appraisers 
  world wide and invite them and their members to participate in FIG events and 
  to liaise with Commission 9 officers and delegates.
  
 - Where possible visit organisations in their home 
  countries. 
  
Workshop(s)
n/a 
Publication(s)
Annual list of organisations approached, responses and 
recommendations for further contact. 
Timetable
See publications. 
Beneficiaries
FIG; Commission 9. 
 
Joint Commission 2 and 9 Working Group (WG 9.5)
Title
Education of Valuation Professionals in FIG. 
Policy issues
  - Education on valuation through information network in FIG (an integrated
    virtual learning environment). Let education move, not people.
 
  - Educational ladder. A stepped way of advancing shall be planned for
    improving the knowledge of valuation.
 
    An educational package of valuation should be created and offered on the
    homepage of FIG. The developing countries and those under transition economy
    should intentionally be chosen as the target group. 
  - Co-operation in education / a network for supporting the contact persons.
 
 
Chair
Prof. Kauko Viitanen (Finland). 
Specific projects
  - Establish an Internet forum for discussion of the education on valuation.
 
  - Collect information and determine terminology, basic theories, basic
    methodology on valuation.
 
  - Create the educational package of valuation.
 
  - Co-operation with Commission 2 and especially with the WP 2.2 (Virtual
    academy - distance learning) on distance education and training and with
    Commission 9 especially the WP 9.1 (Education and training of valuers in
    developing economies). Co-operation also with all other commissions as
    regards distance education and training.
 
  - Establish contacts with the universities, the associations for valuation
    etc. outside FIG.
 
  - Set up a home page with an educational package of valuation with
    hyperlinks to Web sites for distance learning.
 
 
Workshop(s)
  - Virtual workshops and information delivery via the Internet.
 
  - Presentations at FIG working weeks, Korea 2001, USA 2002 and Germany 2006.
 
  - Discussions/presentations can be arranged also in some other seminars of
    Commission 9 (e.g. Copenhagen 2001).
 
 
Publication(s)
  - Digital material on Web sites
 
  - Short articles in journals
 
 
Timetable
  - Set up home page with hyperlinks to Web sites during 2001-2005.
 
  - Continuous communication via the Internet.
 
  - Working group final report, Congress in Munich, 2006.
 
 
Beneficiaries
Distance learning students, individual surveyors, civil servants,
politicians, landowners, employers, universities and university teachers etc. 
      
 
      
Other Activities
      
        - Expand communications to valuers and appraisers worldwide 
  through the commission home page. 
 
        - Through the internet and other means of communication, 
  act as a clearing house for practical research, data base development, data 
  searches and educational opportunities, 
 
        - Reach out to academia, both faculty and students, to 
  encourage future research papers for presentation at FIG events. 
        
 
        - Interact with other FIG commissions, especially 
  Commission 2 - professional standards - and Commission 2 - professional 
  education - in matters relating to valuation practices and protocols. 
        
 
        - Organise presentations of technical papers by 
  practitioners of interest to valuers and appraisers as Commission 9’s 
  contribution to FIG events. 
 
       
      
 
Commission officers and chairs of 
working groups
Chair  G. Michael Yovino-Young 2716 Telegraph 
Avenue Berkeley Ca. 94705-1175 USA Email myovino-young@yovino.com 
Tel + 1 510 548 1210 Fax 
+ 1 510 548 3110 
Vice-Chair Stephen Yip Land Elite Surveyors Ltd Sea 
Bird House, 5th floor 22-28 Wyndham Street Central HONG
KONG, CHINA Email landelit@netvigator.com Tel + 852 
2869 7138 Fax + 852 2869 6010 
Working Group 9.1
Chair  Bill Rodney Business School City 
University Northampton Square London EC1V 0HB UK Email W.Rodney@city.ac.uk  Tel + 44 171 477 
8213 Fax + 44 171 477 8673 
Working Group 9.2
Chair Michael Yovino Young (see above) 
Working Group 9.3
Chair Simon Adcock Office of the Valuer General 235 
Queen Street Melbourne Victoria 3000 Australia Email Simon.Adcock@nre.vic.gov.au Tel 
+ 61 3 9603 8118 Fax + 61 3 9603 8130 
Working Group 9.4
Chair David Millard  
GMAC Commercial Mortgage Company 550 California Street, 12th floor San
Francisco Ca. 94104 USA Email  
Tel + 1 415 391 6155 Fax + 1 415 391 2749 
Joint Commission 2 and 9 Working Group (WG 9.5)
Chair Prof. Kauko Viitanen 
Helsinki University of Technology 
Real Estate Studies 
P.O. Box 1200 
02015 HUT 
Finland 
E-mail: kauko.viitanen@hut.fi 
Tel. + 358 9 451 3870 
Fax + 358 9 465 077 
Working Group WG 9.6
David Smejkal, Chair of WG 9.6 
Institute for Property Expert Valuation 
Prague 
CZECH REPUBLIC 
Tel. + 420 2 2482 7144 
Email: d.smejkal@a-consultplus.cz 
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