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, with the comparable sales and the reasoning set out beneath it. Somewhere as small as Double Bay, the part worth reading is the list of sales, because it shows you how far the valuer had to go to find them.
An appraisal is a free selling estimate offered while an agent competes for a listing, and nobody signs it. A valuation is independent of any sale, effective as at a stated date, evidenced by settled sales, 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. It is unsigned, so there is no independent opinion in it for an auditor, an accountant or a revenue office to rely on. It is built for deciding. On timing: a signed desktop report usually goes out the same day, and an Automated Market Assessment arrives the next business day.
A valuation speaks as at the day it was struck, and it does not quietly stay true afterwards. Some recipients impose a currency window of their own, in which case theirs is the one that binds; ask whoever is receiving it. Where the report is written to a past date, as much of the Double Bay work is, none of that arises.
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 two come apart easily here, because a campaign can lean on a sale from the next suburb along and nobody looking at the advertisement can tell that is where it came from.
Same business day is usual for a signed desktop report. An inspected one moves at the speed of getting into the property, so that step, not the writing, sets the date. The Automated Market Assessment comes back the next business day.
No. A rates notice generally carries a land value, the ground on its own 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 in a suburb where a great deal of the property shares its ground with a building full of other titles, the answers rarely line up.