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If your complaint involves poor service, bad attitudes or inadequate procedures you should report the matter to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) or the National Association of Valuers and Surveyors (NAVA) which deal with discipline for most valuers. Neither the RICS nor NAVA are able to deal with compensation claims for losses caused by a valuers professional negligence which is a matter for a lawyer.
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Our specialist solicitors deal with compensation claims for valuers professional negligence involving financial loss using the no win no fee scheme. We do not ask you to fund or finance your claim and there are no expenses to pay. We insure all of our claims against loss ensuring that your valuers professional negligence claim is totally without risk. If you would like free advice just complete the contact form or use the helpline. Our lawyers will speak to you on the telephone without further obligation about the viability of your potential claim and the level of damages that are likely to be awarded.
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The most common error in regards to valuers professional negligence relates to undervalue of property causing a direct loss on sale however overvaluing can also precipitate losses. There are several other areas that may involve negligence including a failure to take account of deteriorating or improving market conditions and failure to note obvious visual defects which should attract comment.
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To succeed in a valuers professional negligence claim it is necessary to show that you were owed a duty of care which was breached by negligent advice causing direct financial loss. The usual client relationship is sufficient to establish a duty of care and negligence is a failure to take reasonable care of a clients interests. Damages that can be claimed are those losses that are reasonably foreseeable which are not unpredictable and therefore to remote to claim.