Commission 9 at the FIG Working Week, May 2011 Marrakech
Morocco
Commission 9 Newsletter 2010
Commission 9 at the FIG Congress 2010 in Sydney, Australia, 11-16 April 2010
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Frances Plimmer |
Commission 9 had its meeting during the
FIG Congress 2010 in Sydney, Australia, 11-16 April 2010. The
General Assembly appointed Dr. Frances Plimmer from
United Kingdom as
the Chair of Commission 9 for 2011-2014.
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Commission Newsletter and Memo
from the Annual Meeting in Eilat
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Commission 9 had an active programme and fairly high attendance in Eilat. In addition to the General Assembly the Working Groups 9.1 (Compulsory
Purchase and Compensations in Land Acquisition and Takings), 9.3 (Diagnostic
Tools and Prescriptive Practices for the Valuation Profession) and 9.5 (GIS-analyses
in Real Estate Market Analyses and Valuation) had their own meetings.
Working Group 9.2 (Improving Slum Conditions through Innovative
Financing) has in practice completed its work along with the Stockholm
Conference and the World Urban Forum in Nanjing in 2008. Working Group
9.4 (Review of Valuation Methods and Standards Worldwide) has not been
active this year.
Report of the
Annual General Assembly is attached.
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Commission 9 had seven sessions for paper presentations, a
part of them in co-operation with other commissions. The themes
were ”Valuer’s Profession and Real Estate Taxation”, ”Real
Estate Market”, ”Planning, Finance and Urban Readjustment”,
”Property Investments, Brokerage and Prices”, ”Valuation Methods”,
”Compulsory Purchase and Compensation and Planning” and
”Compulsory Purchase and Compensation and Valuation in Real
Estate Development”. There were nearly 30 papers in total. The
sessions had 20 to 30 participants and discussion was often keen.
The papers are published on FIG home page
www.fig.net/pub/fig2009.
On grounds of the discussions at the Working Group 9.1
meeting a questionnaire was addressed in the summer of 2009 to
the representatives of Commissions 7 to 9, academic members,
participants in the Helsinki 2007 Seminar and some other experts
on Good Practices for Compulsory Purchase and Takings. The
outcome will be presented and discussed at the Hanoi Conference
in October 2009. The aim is to prepare FIG recommendations on
good practices for compulsory purchase and compensations to be
published at the Sydney Conference in 2010. In the Hanoi
programme Commission 9 has three sessions for paper
presentations and a meeting of the Working Group 9.1.
Kauko Viitanen
Chair of FIG Commission 9
Commission 9 together with
Commissions 7 and 8 has made a questionnaire on Good practices for
compulsory purchase and takings. Deadline for replies has passed but
you can still see the invitation and reply to the questionnaire.
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The Joint Seminar on Appraisal and Property Protection
was organised in Beijing, China P. R. 18-19 October 2008 by the China
Institute of Real Estate Appraisers and Agents (CIREA), The Hong Kong
Institute of Surveyors (HKIS) and the International Federation of
Surveyors, FIG Commission 9 - Valuation and the Management of Real
Estate in co-operation with FIG Commission 8 - Spatial Planning and
Development.
The major goal of this seminar was to intensify the
discussion between valuers, surveyors, real estate experts, investors,
financiers, urban planners, researchers, teachers and decision makers
and develop common ideas for shaping the future.
Web site:
www.fig.net/commission9/beijing_2008.
Report of the
seminar
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International Seminar on State and Public Land Management in Verona,
Italy, 9-10 September 2008
Seminar on State and Public Land Management was organised in Verona,
Italy, September 9-10, 2008 by FIG Commission 7 (Cadastre & Land
Management) and the Consiglio Nazionale Geometri (CNG), in co-operation
with FIG Commission 9 and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations’ (FAO) Land Tenure and Management Unit.
Web site:
www.collegio.geometri.vr.it/seminar/ and report:
www.fig.net/news/news_2008/verona_september_2008.htm
FIG Working Week 2008 in Stockholm, Sweden, 14-19 June
2008
Commission 9 Annual Meeting was held in Stockholm, Sweden
during the FIG Working Week 2008, 14-19 June 2008, web site of the
conference: www.fig.net/fig2008. Proceedings, technical sessions and papers are available
at: www.fig.net/pub/fig2008
Commission
9 Annual Report for the General Assembly as a .pdf-file.
FIG Commission 9 Seminar on Compulsory Purchase and
Compensation - Helsinki, Finland, 6-8 September 2007
The Seminar on Compulsory Purchase and Compensation in Land
Acquisition and Takings takes place September 6th to 8th 2007, in
Helsinki, Finland. The seminar is organised by FIG Commission 9 in
conjunction to the Baltic Valuation Conference and in co-operation with
FIG Commissions 7 and 8, FAO’s Land Tenure Service, World Bank, Finnish
Association for Real Estate Valuation, Finnish Association of Surveyors,
Ministry of Agriculture and Forest in Finland, National Land Survey in
Finland, Nordic Journal of Surveying and Real Estate Research and
Helsinki University of Technology/Department of Surveying.
The major goal is to intensify the discussion between valuers,
surveyors, real estate experts, financiers, urban planners, researchers,
teachers and decision makers and develop common ideas for shaping the
future.
There are two possibilities for submitting a paper and giving a
presentation:
• Case studies, project presentations etc. (non-reviewed-papers)
• Scientific papers (reviewed papers)
Seminar home page:
http://www.tkk.fi/Yksikot/Kiinteisto/FIG/index.htm
FIG Congress in Munich, Germany, 8-13 October 2006
FIG Working Week in Cairo, Egypt, 16-21 April 2005
FIG Working Week in Athens, 22-27 May 2004
 Prof.
Kauko Viitanen from the
Helsinki University of Technology,
Department of Surveying from Finland was appointed by the General Assembly
in Athens as the Chair Elect of Commission 9 for 2004-2006. He will be
the chair of the commission 2006-2010.
Commission 9 participates the 46th Annual Congress of
the International Federation for Housing and Planning (IFHP), Tianjin,
China P.R., September 2002
In September Simon Adcock, Vice Chair of FIG Commission 9
participated at the 46th Annual Congress of the International Federation
for Housing and Planning (IFHP) in Tianjin in north-west China. Of the
800 plus delegates, approximately 300 were international delegates.
Simon Adcock, on behalf of FIG Commission 9, conducted a workshop
session entitled GIS Application for Strategies in Urban Planning.
This workshop covered GIS Application in both “two” and “three”
dimensional urban planning, computer assistance mapping of data,
analysis of data, quality control and display outcomes. The 3-D section
covered development project analysis and appraisals.
To read more please click for the
report in .pdf-format.
The Appraisal Journal
The Appraisal Journal is a peer-reviewed quarterly journal for real
estate appraisers. Nancy Bannon, the recently appointed Senior Editor of
the journal is offering and encourage FIG valuers and Commission 9
members to submit articles for consideration for publication in The
Appraisal Journal.
The Journal's articles examine issues related to real estate value, taxation,
government regulation, business enterprise valuation, and commercial
transactions, with a special focus on valuation processes and techniques.
The contact information is:
Nancy K. Bannon
Senior Editor
The Appraisal Journal
Appraisal Institute
550 W. Van Buren St., Suite 1000
Chicago, IL 60607
T 312-335-4445
F 312-335-4222
nbannon@appraisalinstitute.org
www.appraisalinstitute.org
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