1.   Retirement Assured, which lets sheltered apartments to the elderly on assured tenancies, takes account of tenants when valuing its properties.

2.   When you want to borrow on a mortgage, the prospective lenders will have the property valued at your expense.

3.   I mean just when you think about it they they were actually following estate agents when they went out to value a property.

4.   Although many have been converted into accommodation, integral garages are now assessed as highly as living space when valuing a property, said Lurot.

5.   Banks must also value property in struggling neighborhoods so homeowners who help stabilize them are not penalized years later with low appraisals.

6.   New York state and local tax authorities lost a Supreme Court bid to avoid a lawsuit challenging the way they value railroad property for tax purposes.

7.   To value waterfront properties correctly, real estate companies will have to keep up with the latest thinking on changes in flood patterns.