Following our recent ISVA Council Meeting and discussions with Simon Marsh of our PII brokers, Fraser Miller, I am delighted to be able to circulate details of a major new ISVA membership benefit. I would encourage you all to consider…
From: Phil Deacon, ISVA Council Members will be interested to know that the annual Ecobuild / Futurebuild exhibition will take place on 5th, 6th & 7th March 2019 at Excel London. The conference programme is a good source of free CPD.…
From ISVA Office ISVA Members may be interested to sign up for this year’s Building Surveyors’ Oxford Briefing Conference which is to be held on Friday 12 October at the Culham Science Centre, near Abingdon, Oxfordshire. The Conference offers seven hours of…
From David Hamilton, ISVA Council Members are reminded that by 6th August 2018 Ombudsman Services: Property (OS:P) ceases to take complaints about surveying services. THIS MEANS YOU MUST HAVE A NEW ADR PROVIDER, in accordance with Rule 7 of the RICS Rules…
From PHIL DEACON, ISVA COUNCIL As you will be aware, ISVA submitted a response to the above consultation. As a result of the lobbying of MPs by ISVA Members, three members of Council attended a meeting on Feb 28th with Sajid…
FROM IAN VICARY, ISVA CHAIRMAN Welcome to my second roundup of “snippets” of information that I hope will help you to keep you up to date. The ISVA will endeavour in future to provide similar “snippets” in a succinct fashion.…
From Phil Deacon IRRV(Hons), ISVA Council Dear ISVA Members Your efforts in writing to MPs and making submissions to the Government Consultation have paid off! Following contact from Sajid Javid’s team at the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government, a small…
From Ian Vicary, ISVA Chairman Welcome to my first roundup of “snippets” of information that hopefully you will find helpful to keep you up to date. The ISVA will endeavour in future to provide similar “snippets” in a succinct fashion. Members…
From PHILIP B DEACON, ISVA COUNCIL have made a submission to the Government Consultation on the Homebuying Process on behalf of the Association. Council believe it would be beneficial if ISVA Members were to follow this up with emails to their MPs…
From PHILIP B DEACON, ISVA COUNCIL The Ecobuild exhibition will take place on 06-08 March 2018 at the ExCeL Exhibition Centre in London. Having attended in previous years, I can recommend it to ISVA Members as a source of free CPD. It…
From Ian Vicary, ISVA Chairman All ISVA members carrying out residential valuation work should look at the guidance “Best Practice for Registered Valuers” which has been drawn to our attention by Peter Dixon at RICS Regulation. As a result of this,…
From PHIL DEACON, ISVA COUNCIL The Rt Hon Sajid Javid MP, Government Communities Secretary, has announced a consultation on the house buying and selling process. For full details of the consultation, please use the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-acts-to-improve-the-home-buying-process ISVA Members are…