FIG Commission 9 - Valuation and the Management of Real Estate

 

"FIG Commission 9 is focusing on the economic strand of surveying and specifically the valuation/appraisal of real estate. Commission 9 also looks at compulsory acquisition, sustainable land and property taxation, new technology such as AVMs, informal land markets, new sectors such as natural-ecosystem value and international standards such ILMS and IVSC valuation standards and methodology. Commission 9 is also engaged with numerous agencies such as World Bank, UN FAO, GLTN, and IFC. " Click for more information about FIG Commission 9

What we do

For the term 2023-2026 FIG Commission 9 will be working on:

PDF: Work Plan (original from 2023)
VIDEO: Chair of the commission Peter Ache takes you through the work plan

Chair of FIG Commission 9: Peter Ache, Germany

Commission 9 on LinkedIn

 

Learn more about how Commission 9 is working with the SDGs

FIG Commission 9 media partner:

Real Estate Management and Valuation (REMV)

- an interdisciplinary, international peer-reviewed, and open-access journal

NEWS

EVENTS

FIG Congress 2026

24-29 May 2026 in Cape Town, South Africa

www.fig.net/fig2026

Commission 9 video for FIG Congress 2026

Lots of reasons for you to come to South Africa in 2026:

 

 

 

FIG Commission 9: 2025 Highlights

In 2025, FIG Commission 9 strengthened international collaboration in real-estate valuation through new partnerships, expert workshops, and active participation in FIG events worldwide. Highlights included a Memorandum of Understanding with the International Valuation Standards Council, discussions on transparency, artificial intelligence, and environmental change, and meetings across Australia, Europe, and the Mediterranean.

The year also saw the election of the next Chair from 2027, and the Commission set priorities for regional expansion, AI-driven market analysis, and further publications on transparency.

Read more about the highlights (PDF) in Commission Chair Peter Ache's Christmas greeting of December 2025.

Conference 18-22 June 2025 in Athens and Santorini, Greece

A joint conference with UNECE WPLA, FIG Commissions 3 & 9, EGoS and World Bank.
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Meet the officers

Commission Chair

Mr. Peter R. Ache, Germany
Contact: FIGCommission9@fig.net

Working Group Chairs:

Chair of Working Group 9.1 Definition of Transparency on Real Estate Markets
Indicative: Bastiaan Reydorn, NL
(To be finalised at one of the next meetings of the Working Group 9.1)
Chair of Working Group 9.2 Best practice Cases on Transparent Real Estate Markets
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(To be finalised at one of the next meetings of the Working Group 9.2)
Chair of Working Group 9.3 Automated Valuation Modelling (AVM) with Machine Learning and Artificial intelligence
Preliminary: Steven Nystrom, NSPS (USA)
(To be finalised at one of the next meetings of the Working Group 9.3)

 

List of all Officers

 

Delegates and Correspondents:

Each member association has the right to nominate a delegate to each of the ten technical commissions. In addition Affiliates, Academic Members and Corporate Members  are welcome to nominate a correspondent to each commission.

Interested? If you are interested to become a national delegate from your country, please contact your member association. The contact information of national delegates is updates by the FIG office. Any changes in contact information should be sent to the FIG Office.

Achievements
This work promotes the careful consideration of a transparent, fair, fast and relatively cost efficient real estate taxation system that could be applied successfully in some developing and transitional economies. Read the publication    
 
       
 

Working Groups

Term 2023-2026: Work plan

WG 9.1: Definition of Transparency on Real Estate Markets
WG 9.2: Best practice Cases on Transparent Real estate Markets
WG 9.3: Automated Valuation Modelling (AVM) with machine learning and artificial intelligence
WG 9.4: Increasing Transparency & Resilience in the Self-made cities through Formalization of Informal Development & improvement of Geospatial Ecosystems jointly with Commission 3 and UN-ECE, new 2025

Previous terms

Term 2019-2022
Term 2015-2018
Term 2011-2014
Term 2007-2010
Term 2003-2006

Task Forces

FIG Task Force on Property and Housing

FIG Task Force on Real Estate Market Study

Previous Newsletters

Newsletter - 2018
Newsletter - 2017
Newsletter - 2016

 

FIG Publications

FIG Pub. no. 67: Property Taxation for Developing Economies

FIG Proceedings

List of FIG Conference Proceedings
FIG Surveyors Reference Library

Events

All Commission 9 events

Reports to General Assembly

All Commission 9 reports

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