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CAAV Fellows |
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A Fellow of the CAAV (with the qualification FAAV) is a professionally qualified adviser who will have passed the Association's own written, practical and oral examinations, and specialises in agricultural and rural matters. In addition to having passed the stringent CAAV professional entrance examinations, the member must have practised as an agricultural valuer for a minimum of two years.
Most will also be members of other professional bodies such as the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), the Scottish Institute of Auctioneers and Appraisers and the Institute of Rating and Revenue Valuations (IRRV). It is however their CAAV membership that confirms members' specialisation in agricultural and rural professional matters.
Valuers must have a wide knowledge of country life, understand the relevant law, keep abreast of government regulation and maintain a strong sense of practicality in times when there are many new or increasing pressures on and opportunities in the countryside, at all times dealing professionally on behalf of clients.
Members will act in disputes, whether presenting a client's argument, or appearing as an expert witness or deciding them as an arbitrator or independent expert.
Members generally work in surveying and valuation businesses advising all types of client, but are also staff of public companies as well as national and local government - from DEFRA and the Inland Revenue to County Councils - the Forestry Commission, English Nature, the RSPB, the National Trust and National Parks.
Members often form advisory teams with other professionals such as solicitors, accountants and planners to ensure that clients have full advice on their problems.
Fellows have the authority of statute to draft Farm Business Tenancy agreements for a term in excess of three years.
The CAAV includes members with skills in an extremely broad range of issues arising in the countryside, including:
- Valuation, sale, purchase, mortgage & letting of estates, farms, houses and land
- Advice and valuation for rural taxation and finance: VAT, CGT, Income, Corporation and Inheritance Tax
- Valuation and auction sales of livestock, machinery and equipment
- Stocktaking valuations
- Landlord and Tenant matters under the Agricultural Holdings Act 1986, the Agricultural Tenancies Act 1995, Landlord & Tenant Act 1954, and other codes, including preparation of tenancy agreements, carrying out rent reviews, succession applications, end of tenancy claims, etc.
- Subsidies, quotas, IACS
- Compulsory purchase and other compensation claims
- Environmental schemes, SSSIs, other conservation measures
- Diversification - alternative uses of agricultural land and buildings
- Planning - submission of planning applications, appeal and Unitary Development Plan representations
- Rating valuations
- Farm business and estate management: contract, share and partnership farming and management
Clients can have confidence that when they employ a valuer who, as a Fellow of the CAAV, is entitled to use the initials FAAV they will be advised by one of the specialist valuers and advisers to the countryside.
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