The organisation was formed by the merging of ALAVES (The Association of Local Authority Valuers and Estate Surveyors formed in 1950) and CLAVA (The County Land Agents and Valuers Association formed in 1908).  The current President is Sara Cameron FRICS (pictured right).  Previous Presidents going back to 1986 are shown below.

Roy S Gregory

ARICS IRRV

1990/91

Jack D C Simpson

LIB FRICS FRVA

1989/90

Richard J Miller

FRICS

1988/89

Alan G Darg

FRICS

1987/88

Remo Verrico

FRICS

1986/87