Market value serves as the safety valve to the secured lending dynamics of landed property. This book highlights the concept of market value and the various approaches by which it can be estimated. The parallel occurrences of other types of values are presented through the reproduction from the <strong>International Valuation Standards'</strong> definitions and concepts. The role of comparative evidence in valuation and the concept of hierarchy of evidence in valuation have been presented with reference to the relevant RICS literature on these aspects. All these basics are the subject matter of the first chapter of this book. The second chapter gives a general overview of the secured lending applications. The onward chapters—the owner-occupied property, the development property, the investment property and the trade-related property focus on the corresponding areas through examples of problems typical in valuation. Thus the chapter on owner-occupied property deals with often-faced problems in the valuation...