Webinar: The Connected Valuation: How data is transforming CRE advice by OrbitalX Webinars

About This Webinar

Valuations sit at the heart of every commercial property decision: influencing deals, financing, and client trust. But how valuers access, interpret, and deliver that insight is changing fast. In this session, Kato’s Mike Avery and Joe Sumray are joined by Alex Kountourides, CEO & Co-founder of Valos (and a former valuer himself), unpack how automation, real-time comparables, and integrated workflows are redefining modern valuation practice, plus what this means for agencies, landlords, and clients.

Alex will share how Valos was built to solve the daily inefficiencies valuers face, how data and AI are reshaping turnaround times and accuracy, and what today’s tech-enabled valuer looks like in 2025.

We’ll also explore the enduring importance of comparables, and how connecting valuation and agency workflows (including a new Kato × Valos integration) creates a more transparent, data-driven CRE ecosystem.

Agenda

The biggest pressure points in today’s valuation process, and how data, automation, and real-time comparables are helping valuers deliver faster, more accurate outputs.
The role of AI in valuations: what it can accelerate, what still requires professional judgement, and why data quality and trust matter more than ever.
How agents and valuers can work more collaboratively by connecting deal data and valuation workflows, via a more connected CRE ecosystem.
What defines the modern valuer in 2025: data-literate, tech-enabled, and focused on delivering clarity and transparency for clients.

Mike Avery

Co-founder & CEO, Kato

is Co-founder and CEO of Kato, the CRM and data platform built for the UK commercial property market. He began developing a digital product in 2008 to help agents manage listings and enquiries more effectively, which became AgentsInsight in 2012. Under his leadership, the platform grew from a regional tool to an enterprise-grade solution adopted by major firms including JLL and several of the UK’s industrial and retail societies. In 2023, Mike guided Kato’s merger with digital leasing company Least, evolving the business into a collaborative, data-centric platform. Today, Mike leads Kato’s mission to transform CRE into a connected, data-driven industry — with Atlas at its centre.

Joe Sumray

Lead Product Manager, Kato

is the Lead Product Manager at Kato and brings nearly a decade of experience at the intersection of CRE data and technology. Formerly at EG, Joe helped develop EG Radius and led the team that built one of the industry’s first contributory data-sharing models. At Kato, he’s now focused on building the next generation of connected, real-time data platforms for agencies — helping turn information into action.

Alex Kountourides

Co-founder & CEO, Valos

is a Co-founder of Valos, a UK technology company transforming the valuation process through data and automation. A qualified valuer by background, Alex saw first-hand how much time was lost to manual processes, inconsistent data, and fragmented systems. He founded Valos to fix those pain points — enabling valuers to generate compliant, data-rich reports in minutes rather than days. Under his leadership, Valos has become one of the UK’s leading valuation platforms, combining automation, AI, and market insight to help valuers focus on what they do best: applying expertise and judgment.