If yours is not below, ask a real valuer and a valuer picks it up.
A valuer's signed opinion of what a property was worth on one nominated day, set out with the comparable sales and the reasoning underneath it. The day is chosen to answer a particular question, which is why the sales attached to it matter as much as the figure at the front.
An appraisal is a free selling estimate given while an agent competes for a listing, and nobody signs it. A valuation is independent of any sale, effective as at a stated date, built from sales that had actually settled by then, and signed by the valuer who reached it.
In New South Wales, a valuer with the professional qualification and standing to have their opinion relied on. Their name and credentials appear on the report, which is exactly what allows a third party to act on it.
Yes. A valuer independent of your fund prepares and signs it, SISR 8.02B is the standard it is written to, and the comparable sales are attached rather than summarised, so an auditor can follow the figure back to its evidence.
The valuer who reached the opinion, named with their qualification. Not the model that gathered the evidence, and not anyone signing in their place. (from $550).
No. Nothing in it is signed, so there is no independent opinion for an auditor, an accountant or a revenue office to rely on. It is built for deciding rather than for reporting. On timing: a signed desktop report usually goes out the same day, and an Automated Market Assessment arrives the next business day.
It is effective as at its date rather than open-endedly. Where the organisation receiving it applies a currency period, that period is what counts, and your adviser will know which. A good deal of the work here is written to a date years back, where currency is not the question being asked at all.
Yes. $169 for signed desktop reports, $79 for Automated Market Assessments. Inspection valuations start at $550, with the exact price confirmed at checkout before you pay, never after.
An advertised price is a marketing position, often a range set to draw interest. A valuation reports what has settled. In a suburb the size of Blacktown the two part company easily, because a headline figure quoted for the whole suburb is an average across a great deal of very different property.
A signed desktop report is usually ready the same business day, and the depth of the local sales record is why a Blacktown desktop rarely has to wait on anything. An inspected report waits on access. An Automated Market Assessment arrives the next business day.
No. A rates notice generally carries a land value, the ground alone with nothing built on it, struck for rating at a date the council chose. A valuation covers the whole property at the date you need it. Two different questions, and the answers rarely line up.