45 Moorgate, City of London — Market Value assessment in under an hour

Executive summary

A senior RICS-qualified valuer at Sterling Chartered Surveyors receives a valuation instruction from Meridian Capital for a Grade A office in the City of London. His assistant, Aria, handles the comparable research, adjustment analysis, yield calculations and report drafting — producing a Red Book-compliant draft that would normally take 4–5 hours of analyst time. The valuer reviews, requests two amendments, and signs off the same morning.

6Comparable transactions sourced from 42 candidates

£8.875MMarket Value opinion — 5.65% NIY

< 1hrFrom instruction to draft-quality report

2Revision cycles before sign-off

Setup

Communicating the appraisal details

The valuer briefs Aria the same way he’d brief a junior analyst — conversationally, in plain English. No forms, no templates, no structured input. Aria parses the key parameters (property, tenancy, passing rent, basis of value) and confirms them back in a structured summary before beginning work.

Notice how the valuer flags the break clause risk mid-conversation and Aria immediately adapts the scope — immeditaly adding a yield premium adjustment and a Companies House covenant check.

Research & Analysis

Sourcing and making adjustments

While the valuer moves on to other work, Aria runs the full comparable search autonomously — querying CoStar, cross-referencing HM Land Registry price paid data, and checking the tenant’s covenant via Companies House. Every research step is visible in real time, with the data sources and results, making every decision auditable if questioned later.

Report & Revision

Delivery, feedback, and sign-off

The draft arrives as a formatted attachment in the same chat thread — no context switching, no email chain, no shared drive. The valuer opens it inline, skims the executive summary and comparable schedule, and spots two things he wants added: a sensitivity table and expanded market rent evidence.

He gives that feedback in natural language. Aria produces the updated draft in under two minutes, citing four letting comparables and the Knight Frank City Index for the rent evidence.

“I start every morning with draft valuations waiting in my inbox — comps sourced, adjustments proposed, templates populated. I just provide my professional judgement and sign off. It's transformed how I spend my day.”

— James Whitfield MRICS, Senior Director — Valuation & Advisory, Sterling Chartered Surveyors

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