Why do valuers want to limit their liability?

Stephen Todd

Chief Commercial Officer of VAS Valuation Group

Video Transcript

Valuers want to limit their liability as a result mainly of what’s happened in the PII, professional indemnity insurance market in the last five years. Valuers and their insurers are increasingly asking to limit their liability per valuation.

 

A trend we expect to continue to increase in the short to medium term.

 

This can either be a limit as a percentage of market value or as a specific figure. The RICS are increasingly encouraging valuers to do this. We expect this to be an increasing trend in the short to medium term.

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