Updated 12 November 2026
The official way to check a licensed valuer in Kenya is to search the Valuers Registration Board register, not a firm website or a social-media page. The Board’s public list, still titled “Registered Valuers and License Status 2026” when checked on 12 November 2026, is at vrb.or.ke/registered. The Board’s own homepage, checked the same day, says it exists to regulate land and property valuation practice in Kenya by maintaining a register of all registered valuers, annually gazetting valuers who are licensed to practice, and regulating the practice.
On a count of that official register on 12 November 2026, the heading and the 41 pages of the list both came to 611 unique member numbers. This guide does not paste the names. Search the exact name and member number. A later official register or a later gazette would supersede that count. A land surveyor, an estate agent or an NCA contractor is not a licensed valuer merely because they work on a property transaction.
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What a valuer’s registration and licence are
The statutory basis is the Valuers Act, Cap 532. In the Kenya Gazette of 2 April 2026 (Vol. CXXVIII, No. 63), which the Board still posted on its downloads page when checked on 12 November 2026, Gazette Notice No. 4988 is headed “Registered and Practising Valuers”. It is made in accordance with sections 8 and 22 of the Act, and it notifies the public that the valuers named in that notice “are licensed to practice valuation in the year 2026”. The notice is dated 27 March 2026 and signed by Gregory Masika, Registrar of the Valuers Registration Board. The numbered list in that notice ends at serial 571.
The same gazette carries Gazette Notice No. 4989, headed “Registered Valuers”, made in accordance with section 8 of the Act, also dated 27 March 2026 and signed by the same registrar. That second notice lists registered valuers for the year 2026; it is a short, separate list, not a second copy of the practising list. Registration and a current practising licence are therefore not treated as the same thing in the official notices. Search the live register as well as any gazette you are given.
How to search for a licensed valuer in Kenya
Open the official list of a licensed valuer in Kenya at vrb.or.ke/registered. The public form, when checked on 12 November 2026, offered a “Search By Name” box, a “Search By Certificate No.” box and a “Select Year of Licence” drop-down. Type the exact name or the member number on the valuation report, the instruction letter or the identification document. Confirm the result rather than guessing from a similar name.
The public table showed four columns: Member No., Member Name, Registration Status and Last Licensed. Check all four. A 2026 figure in the Last Licensed column is not, by itself, a finding that a particular report or a later mobile number belongs to that valuer. If the name you were given does not appear, try a shorter form of the name, then confirm with the Board.
Use the live register as the current official list unless and until the Board replaces it. The April 2026 gazette is the gazetted practising list as at that date. The November register count was higher than the serial numbering in Gazette Notice No. 4988. This guide does not invent an explanation for that difference. Search the register you are using on the day you instruct the valuer.
What the 611 entries include, and what they omit
On a count of every page of the official register on 12 November 2026, there were 611 unique member numbers. All 611 rows showed Last Licensed as 2026. The Registration Status column showed 609 rows marked “Active” and 2 marked “Deceased”. The official heading on the first and last pages was “611 Total Registered Valuers and License Status 2026”, on 41 pages — the current official list of a licensed valuer in Kenya. This guide does not reproduce the names and does not treat a deceased row as a person you can engage. The source for the names is the official register itself.
The register does not, on the public table we checked, show a firm name, a postal address or a disciplinary history, even though some of those fields appear in the April gazette. A name marked “Active” with Last Licensed 2026 is official evidence of that printed status on the date you searched. It is not a credit rating, and it is not a finding that a particular valuation report is correct.
If your report uses an older name, or a name you remember from a previous year, search the current register of a licensed valuer in Kenya anyway. The year drop-down on the official form goes back many years. An earlier licence year is not a 2026 practising licence.
How this sits with stamp duty and other land checks
A valuation often sits beside other official steps, including the stamp-duty process we have already set out in our stamp-duty rates and payment guide, and the fraud checks in our land-fraud checklist. Those guides do not replace the valuer register. A licensed land surveyor, an architect or an NCA contractor is registered with a different statutory body.
If you cannot find a licensed valuer in Kenya of that name and member number, or if the registration status is not “Active”, ask the Board before you rely on the report or pay a fee. Do not treat a firm letterhead as a substitute for the official register.
Who to contact at the Valuers Registration Board
The official contact page, checked on 12 November 2026, gives the Board’s address as First Ngong Avenue, Ardhi House, 3rd Floor, Wing B, Office 313, Nairobi, Kenya, with working hours Monday to Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The published telephone number is +254 (0)115 962 937. The same site lists secretariat@vrb.or.ke.
When you write, include the exact name and member number you were given, the document on which they appear, and the date you searched the register. The official list answers a narrow question: is this person among the 611 member numbers on the current “Registered Valuers and License Status 2026” list, and what status and licence year are printed beside that name? It does not, on its own, approve a valuation or a stamp-duty figure.
Frequently asked questions
Where is the official licensed-valuer list?
On the Valuers Registration Board register at vrb.or.ke/registered, titled “Registered Valuers and License Status 2026” when checked on 12 November 2026. That register is the current official list of a licensed valuer in Kenya. The Board also posts the 2 April 2026 Kenya Gazette notices on its downloads page.
How many licensed valuers are on the register?
On a count of the official register on 12 November 2026, there were 611 unique member numbers, all with Last Licensed 2026, of which 609 were marked Active and 2 Deceased. Gazette Notice No. 4988 of 2 April 2026 is a separate, earlier practising list that ends at serial 571.
Is registration the same as a practising licence?
Not in the official notices. Gazette Notice No. 4988 lists valuers licensed to practice in 2026 under sections 8 and 22 of the Valuers Act. Gazette Notice No. 4989 is a shorter list of registered valuers under section 8 only. Check the live register’s status and licence-year columns.
What if the name is on an older gazette only?
Search the current register. An earlier gazette or an earlier licence year is not, by itself, a 2026 practising licence.
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