Our General Valuation and China Valuation teams continue to act as external valuers for the annual property valuations of many well known publicly listed companies and investment funds in Greater China. Both teams also carry out property valuations for initial public offerings and inclusions in public circulars. Knight Frank is the appointed valuer to four of the five listed REITs in Hong Kong including the first and largest REIT listed in Hong Kong. Previously, we were the appointed valuers to two REITs that were subsequently listed on the Singapore Exchange.
Our Valuation team houses two specialties: Business Valuation and Mortgage Valuation.
Our Business Valuation team is experienced in assessing the values of equity interests, financial instruments and intangible assets acting for companies of manufacturing, trading, retail, public utilities, information technology, property development and advertising industries. We have frequently valued assets including convertible bonds, options, warrants, sales and purchase contracts, brand names and customer lists.
Our Mortgage Valuation team is actively involved in valuations for institutional and mortgage finance. We are panel valuers of close to 50 major banks and financial institutions. On average, we turn over 6,000 valuation cases annually, amounting to a total value of HK$300 billion.
In the past three years our Valuation team carried out over 40 valuation exercises for IPO listings/inclusion in public circulars, re-valuations for four REITs clients, annual revaluation of over 1,000 properties for company accounts, 175 business and intangible assets valuations amounting to a total value in the region of HK$45 billion and close to 20,000 mortgage valuations at a total value in the region of HK$300 billion.
Our highly experienced Valuation team includes over 20 qualified GP surveyors who specialise in property and assets valuations in Hong Kong, Mainland China and Macau.
Our Valuation service includes:
- Arbitration and rent review
- Compensation claims
- Disposal and letting
- Financial statements and Company accounts
- Intangibles and Financial instruments
- IPO and REITs listings and Public announcements
- Liquidation and receivership
- Merger and acquisition
- Rates review and appeal
- Syndication loan and Mortgage finance
- Tax disputes