2018

From ISVA Office [memberonly] 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…

From David Hamilton, ISVA Council [memberonly] 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…

From PHIL DEACON, ISVA COUNCIL [memberonly] 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…

FROM IAN VICARY, ISVA CHAIRMAN [memberonly] 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…

From Phil Deacon IRRV(Hons), ISVA Council [memberonly] 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…

From PHILIP B DEACON, ISVA COUNCIL [memberonly] 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…

From Ian Vicary, ISVA Chairman [memberonly] 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…