طلبات النشر

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the editor will be published if they are restricted to polite questions, comments and arguments, with decorum.  The editor will respond as appropriate.

Foundations

The editor presents a selection of foundational definitions needed to understand terminology and concepts discussed in valuation engineering.  Appraisers often here terms such as hedonic regression bantied about, with out a good understanding what they mean.   This is your chance to brush up on fundamental concepts and terms.

Articles

The Articles section is the journal's principal section and carries its substantive scholarship: original research together with rigorous methodological, conceptual, and practice contributions on the theory, practice, regulation, and computation of real-estate and asset valuation. Quantitative and computational submissions are expected to document their data sources and model specifications and to report out-of-sample or cross-validated performance rather than in-sample fit alone; claims about professional practice should be grounded in recognized standards such as USPAP and the International Valuation Standards, and regulatory claims in primary sources. Authors must disclose funding, employment, and client relationships, any commercial interest in the methods or assets discussed, and any use of generative-AI tools.

At launch, submissions to this section undergo editorial review (AI-assisted); independent external peer review will be introduced as the journal grows, and each article's review status is recorded on the published version. Where the editor is also an author, that relationship is disclosed and the article is identified as editor-reviewed.
 Accepted articles receive persistent identifiers (Crossref and Zenodo DOIs) and fall under the journal's corrections-and-versioning policy.

الممارسة المقارنة

Cross-jurisdictional comparison of valuation practice and its institutions: who may value, under which rules, and how the systems differ.

أحكام قضائية حديثة

Recent Court Decisions surveys recent developments in property valuation law across accessible jurisdictions. Each installment covers a region, reporting decisions, statutes and regulations from the months preceding publication, and referencing each jurisdiction's primary sources.

A jurisdiction is counted as covered only where an installment addresses that jurisdiction's law. Materials are read in their original language where possible and in machine translation where not; each translated source is marked and linked so that it can be checked.

The department reports instruments as written. It does not warrant how they are applied in practice. Some jurisdictions are represented by statute and established practice rather than by a decision from the period, and some entries rest on secondary sources rather than official reports; both are marked where they occur. Readers should not rely on the Journal's English descriptions alone.

Jurisdictions are omitted for stated reasons — inaccessible court records, no accessible primary law, or not yet surveyed — and the omissions are listed rather than left silent.

Installments are written by the editor. The department particularly welcomes corrections from practitioners working in the jurisdictions surveyed remotely; these are published as Letters to the Editor or incorporated with acknowledgement.

بروتوكولات

Protocols are specific instructions for executing a defined valuation task. A protocol is not a standard: standards are issued by the professional bodies, and a protocol says how a task is carried out, not what the profession requires.

The department publishes protocols and the drafts that precede them. A draft carries a v0.x designation and is marked not citable in a conformance claim; it is published so that it can be read, tested and commented on before release. Comments go to the editor and their disposition is recorded.

Publication of a protocol creates no obligation on any valuer, and adoption by any authority is that authority's decision. A protocol being followed exactly does not make its result correct.

Recent Court Cases - Central & Sourth America

This section displays summaries of recent Central & Sourth American court cases in the 3-6 months prior to publication date.   There may be an extended discussion of the case if it has special interest.  Also, the first issue covers 2025 through May 2026.

Software Reviews

Reviews of software and methodologies.

Articles Needed

Describes areas where additiona articles are needed.