All posts tagged "Market Rent"
Creepy?
Jul 2025 – Creepy? When you stop to think about it, the RICS is like an episode of Dr Who where an alien beast has a hold over humans that have to do its bidding. Over 150 years ago, a few surveyors got together to decide their standards were superior to everyone else at the […]
Independent Expert Determination on Rent Review
Jun 2025 – On referral, win most, lose a few; fair enough when the third party is someone who knows what he/she is talking about. But it irks when someone doesn’t. One such today. For no apparent reason, the RICS appointment of an IE was, according to the surveyor’s website, an arbitrator and mediator. As […]
VOA areas and rent review
Aug 2025. VOA areas and rent review. In many places, and often contrary to what is on-line, the VOA zoning methodology is not 6.1m/6.1m/6.1m (20’/20’/20′). but 4.57m/ 7.62m/ 6.1m (15’/25’/20′). Where VOA areas are relied on assuming 20/20/20 when they’re not is a common trip-up for rent review surveyors none the wiser. (Strictly, 20 ft […]
Warning Signs
Sep 1984 – News is coming through that the banks are tightening up on their lending to Asian buyers for grocery businesses. Asians tend to treat their business interests as family concerns, injecting sizeable capital funds from consortium or family sources, with bank loans over 5-10 years, in exchange for an income level which would seem derisory to […]