Value with Purpose: Demystifying EUV-SH for Affordable Homes

Introduction

Are you confident in understanding how social housing assets are valued and how those valuations affect transactions and investment decisions?

This webinar sets out to clarify the meaning of ‘Existing Use Value for Social Housing’ (EUV-SH) as a basis for the valuation of Registered Providers’ property assets. EUV-SH is in its third decade as the capital value benchmark for affordable housing, giving lenders a guide for capital cover, and RPs an insight into relative performance of their assets as well as a framework for strategic investment decision-making.

The webinar will consider the origins of the basis, its development over time and how housing portfolio transactions have influenced its calculation. Viewers will gain a detailed overview of the uses to which EUV-SH can be put, and the essential methodologies that determine it. With these insights, viewers will better understand the role that EUV-SH can play in both asset management and secured lending projects, as well as being better able to frame their instructions to external valuers and to oversee in-house appraisals.

The webinar is for professionals working in valuation, estate management, or legal advisory roles in the social and affordable housing sector in England.

What You Will Learn

This webinar will cover the following:

• Why EUV-SH matters: regulatory and transactional purposes, capital valuations for loan security
• The valuation basis explained: the constraints required by the ‘standard’ definition and the use of variations; does EUV-SH represent best value?
• The approach to valuation: how do you value when there are almost no comparable transactions?
• A detailed dive into EUV-SH methodology: discounted cashflow analysis
• Is there actually a market? What does transactional evidence provide? The ‘special purchaser’ problem
• EUV-SH considerations beyond a spreadsheet calculation
• The value effects of regulation
• Using EUV-SH in an estate management context

This pre-recorded webinar will be available to view from Tuesday 31st March 2026

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