Our professional valuation teams have a thorough understanding of the development process
“We offer development valuation services for a wide range of residential and mixed-use assets, including single units, low-rise and high-rise apartment buildings, and major housing estates.”
Development valuations
A development appraisal is a valuation which assesses a property with or without planning permission to establish the likely value of a future use or the value as a cleared site for redevelopment. The valuation is called a ‘development appraisal’ because the Valuer has to assess a multitude of factors including build costs.
Firstly, the Valuer has to assess the value of the completed development. For residential developments this is the likely end sales price of the units or accommodation to be created. For Commercial developments this will typically be the NET income of the completed development capitalised at an appropriate all risks yield. This is known as the ‘gross development value’ the maximum end value proceeds from selling or leasing the development.
Then from the ‘gross development value’ the Valuer then deducts land acquisition costs, building costs, profit, costs of finance and an appropriate profit margin for the developer to derive what the land is worth today. The valuer who will be a Chartered Valuation Surveyor will then make an end adjustment to the derived valuation is planning permission has not yet been granted.
Valuation method
Gross Development Value
Likely value of the future use
LESS
Cost
EQUALS
What the land is worth today
Adjusted for risk depending on if planning permission has been granted
Impact of hope value on
development appraisals
Hope value is the estimated value of land if it were to be developed in the future. The hope value of land can impact development appraisals.
How is a site valued?
Valuers have to weigh up a variety of factors, including issues and costs while valuing a site. We have prepared a detailed list of considerations.
Impact of hope value on development appraisals
We focus primarily on:
The good news is that the RICS* International Valuation Standards which defines market value as “the estimated amount for which a property should exchange on the date of valuation between a willing buyer and a willing seller in an arm’s-length transaction after proper marketing wherein the parties had each acted knowledgeably, prudently, and without compulsion” Also states that ‘market value’ includes ‘hope value’ and that means the ‘hope’ or likelihood of obtaining a future planning consent.
Any prospective developer will know that the certainty of a planning permission not only sets what can be built but also usually enhances the value of the land. In the industry this is called ‘planning gain’.Ringley’s Chartered Valuation Surveyors not only have to keep up to date with building costs and construction methods but also Section 106 requirements for education, green space, infrastructure as well as in London the Mayor’s levy.
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) represents the property profession in 146 countries, and regulates its ‘Chartered’ members. All valuations are subject to the RICS International Valuation Standards otherwise known as the ‘Red Book’.
How is a site valued?
Issues that the Valuer has to weigh up include:
- street frontage and return frontage (can be taken into account to enhance the permitted planning density)
- current land use
- land use earmarked in UDP
- build density of nearby buildings
- planning precedents in the area
- policy on car parking
- policy on mix of units
- policy on lifetime homes, access and design
- likely land contamination and remediation costs
- ground condition and foundation issues
Then the Valuer has to weigh up factors to help him/her quantify what ‘new build premium’ should be applied. Factors that may be relevant will include:
- proximity to open space
- proximity to transport infrastructure
- parking provision on site (included, spaces to be sold/rationed)
- balconies, terraces, outside space
- aspect (south facing?)
- landscaping schemes
- specification, number of bath/shower rooms, audio wired
- room ratios, how accommodation out-performs older properties
- for apartments, lease length
- comparable new build sales
- local 2nd hand stock sales
In weighing up costs the Valuer has to take into account:
- market building rates
- construction costs (including builders profit)
- bank interest on the land
- development costs and profit
Our Expertise
A whole lot of expertise goes into a development appraisal. At Ringley our team is able to draw from:
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our Block Management team who set service charges for both small and large schemes. They understand the running costs and how to move the responsibility of future maintenance onto the service charge
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our Building Engineering team whose costing expertise and contract administration expertise assists in benchmarking clients’ costing analysis
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our Town Planner who spent 40 years on the other side of the fence, in the public sector, before joining our private practice.
Our Survey and Valuations team
The key to our success is our people.
Nichola Pughe
Head of Residential Valuation
Chris Georgallis
Head of Commercial Valuation
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