If yours is not below, ask a real valuer and somebody who signs reports answers.
A valuer's signed opinion of what a property was worth on one nominated day, with the comparable sales and the reasoning set out beneath it. The reasoning is not decoration. On a Devonport property with little above it in the local record, the reasoning is most of what a reader is relying on.
An appraisal is a free, unsigned selling estimate given while an agent competes for the listing. A valuation is independent of any sale, effective as at a stated date, evidenced by settled sales and signed. An appraisal also assumes you are selling, and most Devonport owners who need a figure are not.
In Tasmania, a certified practising valuer who is a member of the Australian Property Institute. Their name, qualification and membership appear on the report, which is what lets somebody else rely 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 whose opinion it is, named with their qualification. Not the evidence engine that gathered the sales, and nobody signing in their stead. (from $550).
No. Nothing in it is signed, so there is no independent opinion for an auditor, an accountant or a revenue office to stand on. Use it to decide, not to report. On timing: a signed desktop report usually goes out the same day, and an Automated Market Assessment the next business day.
It is effective as at its date rather than open-endedly. Where the recipient applies a currency period, that period governs, and your adviser will know which. Plenty of the Devonport work we do is written to a day already behind the owner, where currency is not the question 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 attract interest. A valuation reports settled evidence. The gap opens widest on a Devonport property the town holds few of, because a campaign can say what it likes about something with nothing recent beside it and a valuation has to show its working instead.
A signed desktop report is usually ready the same business day, and for the great majority of Devonport addresses the evidence is there to do exactly that. 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 on its own with nothing standing on it, struck for rating at a date chosen for rating purposes rather than for yours. A valuation covers the whole property at the date you need, with the sales behind it named. Two different questions, and the answers rarely line up.