Lei n.º 153/2015 · Artigo 20.º and annex
What a Portuguese valuation report must contain
The annex sets the mandatory content in three blocks. The building's condition is a required line inside it. What the report is never asked to establish sits on the right.
Required by law
In the valuation report
Anexo, block B, first item
- Location characteristics of the property
- Estado de conservação, the recorded state of the fabric
- Type of construction
- Use to which the property is put
- Identification elements, and accountability elements naming the perito
Outside the exercise
Left unexamined
No instrument requirement, no comparison duty
- Cause of a recorded defect, and how far it has travelled
- Built footprint measured against the approved drawings
- Whether works on the plot carry municipal authorisation
- Condition of concealed elements: structure, wiring, services
- What putting any finding right would cost
The distinction that mattersThe condition line exists to support a value. A perito records that a roof is in poor condition because poor condition changes the figure, and stops there. The questions that follow need instruments, and the Portuguese purchase asks them of nobody.