| Cross-border real estate investment is a growth industry and valuation practice is key. At the BUMP seminar, leaders of the European valuation industry will show how valuation concerns permeate the debate over all the major EU legislative initiatives on real estate: the EU REIT, the EU passport for open ended real estate funds, mortgage credit, the Services Directive, and even the Directives on Energy and Water Performance of Buildings. They will also demonstrate how key advances in EU valuation integration are coming from the valuation profession itself, through the European Valuation Standards (EVS) of TEGoVA – The European Group of Valuers’ Associations, and through TEGoVA’s new ‘Recognised European Valuer – REV’ system that will provide a recognised, common standard of excellence for valuers throughout the Union. The panel moderator, representing European real estate owners and investors, will ask the panellists how these legislative and industry initiatives benefit the clients of the valuation profession. |