VAS Assurance rebrands to Validate
22 May 2025
To coincide with 10 years in business, specialist property valuation firm VAS Assurance, part of VAS Valuation Group, has rebranded to Validate.
Validate will continue to provide its trusted property desktop valuation and auditing services to its loyal base of specialist lenders and challenger bank clients.
The business has recently added capacity to manage with the increased demand for its services, which provide alternative solutions to the market while managing risk.
Although it is now separated from the VAS Valuation Group, Validate continues to be led by Founder Stephen Todd.
Stephen comments:
“Originally founded as Valuation Audit Services, where the name VAS comes from, it then became known as VAS Audit and most recently VAS Assurance.
“The VAS Assurance business has evolved over the last decade, in line with the expansion of our services.
“At the same time, we have seen tremendous growth in the VAS Panel business, which has undergone various rebrands itself. This move will now also allow us to rename the VAS Panel business to simply VAS.
“I am excited to announce the new Validate brand and see the continued growth of its innovative Desktop+ and auditing services—demand for which has increased significantly over the years as clients seek an alternative to AVMs.”
Validate’s Desktop+ sits between an AVM and a fully inspected RICS Red Book valuation report.
It provides an option to lenders when they do not want to use an AVM, but for speed or flexibility, they want to utilise the firm’s internal valuers’ expertise.