Mission Statement

The EAA: setting industry standards for AVMs in Europe

The European AVM Alliance (EAA) is a European, non-profit making association of leading providers of Automated Valuation Models (AVMs) for the residential property market.

The mission of the EAA and all its related activities rests on three pillars:

  • to promote AVM awareness and disseminate a greater understanding of the benefits that AVMs can deliver
  • to represent the interests of the AVM industry vis-a-vis the European institutions and other market influencers
  • to establish consistently high quality standards for AVMs across jurisdictions and to certify compliance with these standards through the EAA AVM Label.

Activities

1. Promotion of AVMs 

The EAA participates in and sponsors key industry events on structured finance conferences to increase visibility of the range of AVM products and suppliers across Europe, and to demonstrate the benefits of AVMs to stakeholders, ranging from mortgage lenders to property and capital markets investors.

2. Representation of the AVM industry’s interests

The EAA is in dialogue with European and national institutions and regulators to exchange information on newest technical standards in order to emphasise the differentials between different Statistical Valuation Techniques in the context of Portfolio Valuations, and to demonstrate the superior accuracy of comparables-based AVMs in terms of transparency and reliability of the valuation results.

3. Establishment of consistently high Quality Standards for AVMs through the EAA AVM Label

The EAA’s goal is to establish consistently high quality standards for AVMs across European jurisdictions. The AVMs within the EAA fulfil the highest technical requirements within the industry, set and fully adhered to by all EAA members. Compliance with these requirements is certified through a rigorous and transparent assessment procedure by the EAA AVM label. Continued adherence to these requirements is monitored on a regular basis, demonstrably yielding results superior to those of traditional solutions, e.g. House Price Indices and all other statistical tools.