FIG Commission 9 - Valuation and the Management of Real Estate

 

"FIG Commission 9 is focusing on the economic strand of surveying and specifically the valuation/appraisal of real estate. Commission 9 also looks at compulsory acquisition, sustainable land and property taxation, new technology such as AVMs, informal land markets, new sectors such as natural-ecosystem value and international standards such ILMS and IVSC valuation standards and methodology. Commission 9 is also engaged with numerous agencies such as World Bank, UN FAO, GLTN, and IFC. "

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What we do

For the term 2023-2026 FIG Commission 9 will be working on:

PDF: Work Plan
VIDEO: Chair of the commission Peter Ache takes you through the work plan


 

Chair of FIG Commission 9:
Peter Ache, Germany

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NEWS

UPCOMING EVENTS

FIG Working Week 2025

-10 April 2025 in Brisbane, Australia

www.fig.net/fig2025



18 - 22 June 2025, Athens and Santorini, Greece
A joint conference with UNECE WPLA, FIG Commissions 3 & 9, EGoS and World Bank.
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Conference and Workshop - 21-23 May 2025 in Pafos, Cyprus 

Explore the future of real estate modeling, focusing on the pivotal role of Automated Valuation Models (AVMs) and AI-driven innovations in transforming the valuation profession.

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18 - 22 June 2025, Athens and Santorini, Greece

A joint conference with UNECE WPLA, FIG Commissions 3 & 9, EGoS and World Bank.
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FIG Commission 9 signs MoU with IVSC

On 26 February 2025, at a meeting in London, UK, FIG Commission 9 signed MoU with the International Valuation Standards Committee (IVSC)
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Publications

 

Work Plans

   

Proceedings

 

Working Groups

 

Key Documents

Events


Meet the officers

Commission Chair

Mr. Peter R. Ache, Germany
Contact: FIGCommission9 [at] fig.net

Working Group Chairs:

Chair of Working Group 9.1 Definition of Transparency on Real Estate Markets
Indicative: Bastiaan Reydorn, NL
(To be finalised at one of the next meetings of the Working Group 9.1)
Chair of Working Group 9.2 Best practice Cases on Transparent Real estate Markets
NN.
(To be finalised at one of the next meetings of the Working Group 9.2)
Chair of Working Group 9.3 Automated Valuation Modelling (AVM) with machine learning and artificial intelligence
Preliminary: Steven Nystrom, NSPS (USA)
(To be finalised at one of the next meetings of the Working Group 9.3)

 

List of all Officers

 

Delegates and Correspondents:

Each member association has the right to nominate a delegate to each of the ten technical commissions. In addition Affiliates, Academic Members and Corporate Members  are welcome to nominate a correspondent to each commission.

Interested? If you are interested to become a national delegate from your country, please contact your member association. The contact information of national delegates is updates by the FIG office. Any changes in contact information should be sent to the FIG Office.


Achievements

This work promotes the careful consideration of a transparent, fair, fast and relatively cost efficient real estate taxation system that could be applied successfully in some developing and transitional economies. Read the publication    
 
       
 

Terms

Term 2019-2022
Term 2015-2018
Term 2011-2014
Term 2007-2010
Term 2003-2006

Working Groups

Term 2023-2026 

WG 9.1: Definition of Transparency on Real Estate Markets
WG 9.2: Best practice Cases on Transparent Real estate Markets  
WG 9.3: Automated Valuation Modelling (AVM) with machine learning and artificial intelligence

Work plan

 

Task Force

FIG Task Force on Property and Housing

FIG Task Force on Real Estate Market Study

Newsletters

Newsletter - 2018
Newsletter - 2017
Newsletter - 2016

 

FIG Publications

FIG Pub. no. 67: property Taxation for Developing Economies

FIG Proceedings

List of FIG Conference Proceedings
FIG Surveyors Reference Library

Events

All events

Reports to General Assembly

Report, May 2020
Report, Hanoi, Vietnam. 2019
Report, Helsinki, Finland, 2017

All reports