LISTEN: In this EG Property Podcast a valuer, client and software solution expert sit down to discuss the future of valuations in an increasingly technological world.
During the 30-minute round table, Simon Jones, Lambert Smith Hampton’s head of valuations; John Hadcroft, senior portfolio surveyor at Aviva Investors; and Antony Schober, KEL Computing’s managing director, talk about how the valuations sector needs to embrace technology to thrive, how the laboriously painstaking pulling together of valuations could – and perhaps should – be replaced by three-minute videos and virtual reality, and how automated documentation delivery will ultimately enable surveyors to deliver a more valuable service to their clients.
For a part of the surveying business that has never quite has the same sex appeal as the high-rolling investment surveyor, LSH’s Jones believes that the adoption of new models, such as EG’s Valuations360 tool, has the ability to make valuations an appealing career path for the next generation.
