ABSTRACT
The contents of this book illustrate the range of work that a rural valuer may meet. Valuers may still typically be generalists, gaining a wide knowledge of many things and insight into more, but will now be universalists, if only because of regional specialisation in farming and, as often, for professional indemnity reasons. Preparation for the CAAV’s professional examinations with their broad syllabus will give a good grounding for the wider and changing work of the rural valuer, requiring attention to areas of work that may be part of daily practice. However, that breadth allows the valuer to provide a more rounded comprehensive advice to a client than can many others. That advice can appreciate and weigh the combined effects of such factors as land tenure, finance, development control policy, succession planning and taxation with the inter-relationships between those and other critical issues in a way that, when many other professionals have become much more specialist, few others can.
