Valuation Expert Witness

Gilmartin Ley's professional practice includes three RICS Registered Valuers with 100 combined years of post-qualification experience:  Michael Gilmartin FRICS (qualified 1972), Joe Salmon MRICS (qualified 1991) and James Gilmartin MRICS (qualified 2000).  The valuation department provides valuation advice on all aspects of residential and commercial property for private individuals, charities, companies, and pension funds.

The advice we provide is based on extensive experience and an in-depth knowledge of market conditions and trends.  Our knowledge is informed by the market exposure of, and transactions carried out by, our Agency and Investment & Development departments.

We provide valuation advice on a variety of properties from a single London apartment to school buildings to a portfolio of industrial buildings in the Home Counties.

Our professional indemnity insurance cover is presently £2 million on an each and every claim basis.

We provide capital and rental valuations for a variety of purposes, including:

RICS Registered Valuer North London

We provide litigation support to firms of solicitors specialising in this field.  We have experience of providing valuation evidence to tribunals (including the Courts) including giving evidence in person at the tribunal concerned, and negotiations with other expert witnesses.

Examples of tribunals we have prepared evidence for include various County Courts, the Magistrates' Court, the First-tier tribunal - Property Chamber (Residential Property), and the Lands Tribunal.

Our clients commonly request expert witness reports in the case of matrimonial disputes.  If the dispute is at an early stage, and a Court has not made an order for a valuation report to be procured, we are also able to provide (at a lower cost) expert reports for the purpose of the two parties two parties trying to reach an agreement.  Such reports can be upgraded at a later date to expert witness reports (which the Court can rely on) if necessary.

All three of our RICS Registered Valuers have acted as Single Joint Expert.

Other situations where our clients require expert witness reports include the following:

Where expert witness valuation evidence is required, this is provided in compliance with Part 35 of the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) 1998 including the Protocol for the Instruction of Experts to give Evidence in Civil Claims. The expert witness valuation reports we provide also comply with the requirements of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), as set down in 'Surveyors acting as Expert Witnesses RICS Practice Statement' (3rd edition). A copy of this is available on request.

Contact:

Joe Salmon, Director - Valuation & Professional

tel.:  020 8920 9941  comms@gilmartinley.co.uk

James Gilmartin, Managing Director

tel.:  020 8920 9944  comms@gilmartinley.co.uk