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Flooding – issues of concern to chartered surveyors (ARCHIVED)
This document has been archived and is available on isurv for information purposes only.
The purpose of this information paper is to provide chartered surveyors in England and Wales with background information on the issues involved in flooding and flood defence. Although the primary focus of this report is on flooding in or from rural areas, it is recognised that rural and urban areas are linked through the floodplain, and that the consequences of action within one area can cause flooding elsewhere. -
What is the impact of flooding on property values? (RICS)
Published June 2009
This research indicates that flooding has only a temporary impact on property values, and after three years prices had returned to their normal market level. While flood events in low risk areas had no impact on property prices, being designated at high risk of flooding also has had no effect on property values in areas with no flood events. -
Flooding: issues of concern to RICS surveyors and valuers (Residential property) (ARCHIVED)
This document has been archived and is available on isurv for information purposes only.
This information paper describes the nature of the current flood risk problem, the consequences of that risk and how a residential practitioner may take these into consideration when providing residential survey and valuation services. -
Flood risk mitigation and commercial property advice: an international comparison (RICS)
Published March 2017
Commentators have increasingly raised concern over the impact of flood risk on commercial property insurability, maintenance and recovery, property utility and, ultimately, property value.