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Mr Charles Kingsley-Evans



Contact Person: Mr Charles Kingsley-Evans
Qualifications: MA(Oxon)   MRICS   RICS Registered Valuer   DipArb
Phone: 07584 900711
Occupation: Chartered Surveyor, Arbitrator & Expert Witness

Mr Charles Kingsley-Evans
MA(Oxon)   MRICS   RICS Registered Valuer   DipArb

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Chartered Surveyor, Arbitrator & Expert Witness

Charles Kingsley-Evans is an acknowledged expert in property matters. After obtaining an MA in Modern History and Modern Languages (with a special paper on English Architecture) at the University of Oxford, he became a Professional Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. He has experience in property, going back nearly 40 years and is an RICS Registered Valuer. He can carry out a wide variety of valuation and other surveying missions, including Probate valuations.

Mr Kingsley-Evans has held senior roles in several major international surveying firms and in the public sector (in national and local government, including the Valuation Office Agency and the Ministry of Justice), where he exercised quasi-judicial authority. He has in-depth experience of a range of property markets, covering residential, commercial and land assets.

Mr Kingsley-Evans is fully qualified as an Arbitrator, with a Level 5 Diploma in Arbitration. He regularly provides Expert Witness reports for the resolution of property disputes of various types.

Mr Kingsley-Evans is happy to provide valuation and general property advice for clients in Devon, Cornwall, the Thames Valley (Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire), East Anglia (Suffolk and Norfolk) and Central London. Other locations can be covered by prior arrangement.

Mr Kingsley-Evans was based in France for a number of years and has worked in property markets across Europe. He has professional-standard language skills, including bilingual French and a good working knowledge of Spanish. He has undertaken a vast number of translation missions of many different types and also served as a conference interpreter for major corporate clients.

Expertise covers:

  • Property Arbitrations of all types
  • Expert Determinations
  • Expert Opinions
  • Expert Witness reports
  • Valuation reports for matrimonial disputes and divorce settlements
  • Lease extensions under the Leasehold Reform Act 1993
  • Leasehold enfranchisements
  • Valuations for Probate and Inheritance Tax
  • Trust valuations
  • Valuations for Capital Gains
  • Tax Advice on permitted areas for Principal Private Residence Relief
  • Reports on Hope Value for development land
  • Negotiations with District Valuer Services (VOA)
  • Residential property valuations
  • Lending valuations for panels or direct to lenders (for mortgages, commercial loans and bridging finance)
  • Valuations of commercial property, including offices and retail units
  • Shopping centres
  • Portfolio valuations
  • Land valuations
  • Development valuations
  • Assessments of hope value
  • Reports on Listed Buildings
  • Estate management advice
  • Translation of property documents