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- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer Awarding Body for the Built Environment has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and Awarding Body for the Built Environment awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from Awarding Body for the Built Environment.
The Level 6 Diploma in Residential Surveying and Valuation develops the skills and knowledge required to value residential property and produce reports. It is intended for individuals working, or aspiring to work, as residential surveyors. Learners will investigate factors impacting property and undertake property inspections.
These are the units Awarding Body for the Built Environment registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.
Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with Awarding Body for the Built Environment. It does the teaching and the mapping. Awarding Body for the Built Environment sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Conduct inspection and assessment in an effective and professional manner Real unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to maintain health and safety requirements as they apply to residential surveying
- Understand how to maintain security requirements as they apply to residential surveying
- Conduct property inspections in a professional manner
- Develop effective working relationships with colleagues
- Develop effective working relationships with other professionals
- Develop effective working relationships with customers
- Develop effective working relationships with others
- Understand how to work in accordance with legislation requirements in relation to residential property inspections and assessments
- Understand how to work in accordance with regulation requirements in relation to residential property inspections and assessments
- Comply with organisational requirements at all times
- Comply with legal requirements at all times
Investigate and evaluate factors that impact on the value of residential property Real unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate and evaluate economic factors that impact the value of residential property
- Investigate and evaluate social factors that impact the value of residential property
- Investigate and evaluate market trends that impact the value of residential property
- Investigate and evaluate legal factors that impact the value of residential property
- Investigate and evaluate regulatory factors that impact the value of residential property
- Investigate and evaluate location factors that impact the value of residential property
- Investigate and evaluate environmental factors that impact the value of residential property
- Interpret information obtained from property inspections to determine property value
Prepare for property inspections Real unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Agree instructions with a potential customer to carry out a property inspection
- Confirm instructions with a potential customer to carry out a property inspection
- Investigate relevant matters relating to the property that may affect a customer’s decision
Produce, maintain and distribute reports Real unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Produce complete and comprehensive reports that meet relevant industry standards and guidance requirements
- Retain records securely and in line with organisational and legal guidance
- Recognise the range of options available to improve energy performance and running costs, assessing their likely effectiveness and value for money
Undertake property inspections Real unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Inspect property thoroughly to assess its overall condition
- Determine the condition of the property and assess the level of significance of any defects identified
- Make complete, accurate and comprehensive records of all findings during property inspections
- Identify and observe potential energy performance measures that could be implemented in the property
Value residential property Real unit · Awarding Body for the Built Environment
What you'll be able to do
- Assess the value of residential property accurately, considering all relevant factors
- Prepare and deliver a clear and concise valuation report, presenting findings in a professional manner
The national standards these units are built against
What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
- Standard
Agree client requirements and prepare terms of engagement
- Standard
Investigate and evaluate factors that impact on the value of property
- Standard
Prepare for Home Inspections
- Standard
Undertake Home Inspections
- Standard
Value Property
The credits, and who awards them
Level 6 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by Awarding Body for the Built Environment rather than by Zavmo. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you have covered and what is next.
What you would be collecting
Conduct inspection and assessment in an effective and professional mannerInvestigate and evaluate factors that impact on the value of residential propertyPrepare for property inspectionsProduce, maintain and distribute reportsUndertake property inspectionsValue residential property
Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.
How you’d practise it
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You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.
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You do “Produce, maintain and distribute reports” on a real document of your own. Zavmo works on the draft you have to send anyway, so the coursework and the job are the same piece of work.
- Map a live decision Analyse
“Investigate and evaluate factors that impact on the value of residential property” runs on a decision you are facing now. Zavmo maps it with you and shows what the second-order effect looks like before you find out the slow way.
What you leave holding
The standards this credential builds, in the shape the product keeps them
Nothing here is marked learned. There is no learner on a public page, so the map shows what the qualification covers rather than what anybody has done.
- Agree client requirements and prepare terms of engagement
- Investigate and evaluate factors that impact on the value of property
- Prepare for Home Inspections
- Undertake Home Inspections
- Value Property
How you would learn this
One to one, on the work you already do
A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.
A lesson from Conduct inspection and assessment in an effective and professional manner, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your own work
Learners will understand and apply health, safety, and security requirements relevant to residential surveying. The unit develops skills to conduct property inspections professionally while maintaining effective working relationships with colleagues, customers, and other professionals.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for ABBE Level 6 Diploma in Residential Surveying and Valuation
6 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Awarding Body for the Built Environment.
- Conduct inspection and assessment in an effective and professional manner
- Investigate and evaluate factors that impact on the value of residential property
- Prepare for property inspections
- Produce, maintain and distribute reports
- Undertake property inspections
- Value residential property
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