PHOTO: SIMON MAUDE/STUFF Nearly 8000 Auckland properties needed council valuation re-checks done after QV took shortcuts (file photo).
State-owned valuer QV says unclear rules led to it having to re-check council valuations of 8000 Auckland properties.
The botch-up occurred in 2018 after the valuer was found to have breached the law in the way it re-assessed 8000 properties whose owners had objected to their Auckland Council rating valuations.
An audit by the Valuer General in June 2018 found fault with the way QV had subsequently re-assessed the contested values.
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