RICS Valuation Services
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ALL DISCIPLINES OF VALUATIONRICS VALUATION SERVICES
RICS Valuation Services, The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), with headquarters in London, is the leading organization of its kind in the world for more than 100,000 qualified professionals in commercial and residential valuation, development, construction and project management, brokerage, planning, and finance.
EDS Exec. Managing Director Steven N. Siegler, ASA, FRICS is the only RICS-Accredited Valuation Expert Witness in the United States of America—and all of The Americas—one of only a handful of such expert witnesses in the world holding the much-coveted RICS Expert Witness Accreditation Service (EWAS) and Dispute Resolution Service (DRS) Certifications.
Specializing in Hard-to-Value Assets e.g. Valuations and Establishing Damages under Title III of the Helms-Burton Act for property expropriated by the Cuban government since 1959.
OUR GUIDING STANDARDS & GUIDELINESINTERNATIONAL VALUATION STANDARDS (IVS) | RICS 'RED BOOK'
The RICS Red Book is a set of guidelines and standards for valuing property and for conducting RICS Valuation Dispute Resolution Services. It is published by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and is widely recognized as the leading global standard for property valuation. The Red Book provides guidance on the principles, procedures, and practice of property valuation for all types of property, including residential, commercial, industrial, and rural properties.
The Red Book is intended to provide a consistent and transparent approach to property valuation that is based on sound professional principles and best practices. It covers a wide range of topics, including the purpose and scope of property valuation, ethical and professional conduct, and the process of valuing different types of property.
The Red Book sets out the standards that RICS members must adhere to when carrying out property valuations and for conducting RICS Valuation Dispute Resolution Services. It also provides guidance to other professionals, such as lenders, investors, and property developers, on the principles and practices of property valuation.
The Red Book is updated regularly to reflect changes in the market and to ensure that it remains relevant and up-to-date. It is widely used by professional valuers, surveyors, and other property professionals around the world as a benchmark for best practices in property valuation.
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RICS VALUATION SERVICES
United States | Canada | Caribbean | The Americas
EDS provides comprehensive RICS Valuation and Valuation Expert-Witness and Litigation-Support Services in conformity with RICS ‘Red Book’ / International Valuation Standards (IVS) in all disciplines of valuation, e.g., Real Estate, Business Valuation, Personal Property, Machinery and Equipment, and probate matters in the U.S., Caribbean, and throughout all of the Americas.
Our discipline-specific and multidisciplinary RICS Valuation expert witnesses and litigation-support providers are internationally accredited ASA/MAI/RICS valuation instructors—all well-published luminaries in the global valuation community. Our valuation experts include Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP) and International Valuation Standards (IVS) and RICS Valuation instructors, Value Adjustment Board (VAB) Magistrates, and former state/federal valuation regulatory compliance officers.
We conduct in-depth valuation analyses and provide objective opinions and advice that help resolve complex valuation issues. We advise client counsel in the preparation of valuation-related discovery, Daubert challenges, and valuation/valuer compliance with state and federal regulations, USPAP, IVS, Red Book, and international Basel Accords.
EDS specializes in handling complex multidisciplinary and multi-jurisdictional RICS Valuation Services matters. For example, a dispute wherein multiple diverse domestic and international locations/jurisdictions and multiple valuation disciplines (USPAP/IVS) are at issue, e.g., Real Property, Business Valuation, Personal Property, and Machinery and Equipment. Unlike others, EDS will assign one of its internationally accredited RICS Valuation experts from each valuation discipline at issue possessing the requisite jurisdictional and geographic competency to contribute to the process. This ensures credible findings that will withstand challenges and scrutiny from regulatory, judicial, and taxing authorities.
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), with headquarters in London, England, is the world’s largest accrediting body for professional valuers and promotes and enforces the highest professional qualifications and standards in all disciplines of valuation and in the development and management of land, real estate, construction, infrastructure.
EDS Exec. Managing Director Steven N. Siegler, ASA, FRICS is the only RICS-Accredited Valuation Expert Witness in the United States of America—and all of The Americas—one of only a handful of such expert witnesses in the world holding the much-coveted RICS Expert Witness Accreditation Service (EWAS) and Dispute Resolution Service (DRS) Certifications.
Specializing in Hard-to-Value Assets e.g. Valuations and Establishing Damages under Title III of the Helms-Burton Act for property expropriated by the Cuban government since 1959.
The RICS Red Book is a set of guidelines and standards for valuing property. It is published by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and is widely recognized as the leading global standard for property valuation. The Red Book provides guidance on the principles, procedures, and practice of property valuation for all types of property, including residential, commercial, industrial, and rural properties.
The Red Book is intended to provide a consistent and transparent approach to property valuation that is based on sound professional principles and best practices. It covers a wide range of topics, including the purpose and scope of property valuation, ethical and professional conduct, and the process of valuing different types of property.
The Red Book sets out the standards that RICS members must adhere to when carrying out property valuations. It also provides guidance to other professionals, such as lenders, investors, and property developers, on the principles and practices of property valuation.
The Red Book is updated regularly to reflect changes in the market and to ensure that it remains relevant and up-to-date. It is widely used by professional valuers, surveyors, and other property professionals around the world as a benchmark for best practices in property valuation.
Our Valuation & Appraisal Expert Witness Services Group is headed by Executive Managing Director Steven N. Siegler, ASA, FRICS. Mr. Siegler is an Accredited Senior Appraiser (ASA) and was honored to serve as the founding International Chairman of Appraisal Review and Management (ARM) for the American Society of Appraisers from 2002-2011. Mr. Siegler co-authored and directed the development and implementation of the ASA’s Appraisal Review and Management Principles of Valuations series of courses and best practices that are now taught to professional valuers, government officials, legal experts, and many others throughout the world.
Mr. Siegler holds international valuation accreditation as Fellow, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS), and he is the only RICS-accredited expert witness in the United States and all of The Americas—one of only a handful of such expert witnesses in the world holding the much-coveted RICS Expert Witness Accreditation Service (EWAS) and Dispute Resolution Service (DRS) Certifications.
When, as part of Dodd-Frank, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) acting for and on behalf of the U.S. Federal Reserve and all inter-agency regulators sought the expertise to develop, implement and monitor the new National Appraisal Ordering and Appraisal Review Protocols for the United States and all U.S. territories, it came to Mr. Siegler and EDS.
Mr. Siegler holds TS Clearance with the U.S. Government and he is uniquely qualified to practice before U.S. Government agencies in national security-related valuation and in other special matters.
Steven is an Elite-Rated member of the peer-voted Super Appraisers® Global Network of internationally-recognized valuation expert witness testimony luminaries. He has served as an expert witness valuer in U.S. state and federal courts, at international tribunals, and in valuation-related Alternative Dispute Resolution and he has personally prevailed in billions-of-dollars at issue in some of the world’s most important—high-profile—and valuable valuation-related cases.
Engaging the correct RICS valuation professional is critical. EDS’ unparalleled level of expertise is recognized and appreciated in boardrooms and courtrooms throughout the world, and our body of work has been cited by U.S. regulators as “The measure by which all valuation reviews should be judged.”
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