If yours is not below, ask a real valuer and one of the valuers who sign these reports replies.
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. Part of that reasoning is settling what the property actually is, and in Brunswick that is a live question rather than a formality: a title here may be a whole holding on its own ground or a defined part of a larger building, and a sale of one is not evidence about the other.
An appraisal is a free, unsigned selling estimate offered while an agent competes for a listing. A valuation is independent of any sale, effective as at a stated date, evidenced by settled sales and signed by the person whose opinion it is. An appraisal is built to win the listing. A valuation is built to be relied on by somebody who was never in the room.
In Victoria, 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 formed the opinion, named, with their qualification beside it. The evidence engine gathers the sales and it signs nothing. (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. It also takes an address at face value, and where a Brunswick address covers a defined part of a larger building it cannot tell you which holding the evidence is really about. 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 share of the Brunswick work we do is dated years back, on property that has been held free and clear for a long time, 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 draw interest. A valuation reports settled evidence. The two part company easily in Brunswick, because a campaign can lean on the street while the figure depends on what kind of holding sits on it.
A signed desktop report is usually ready the same business day. An inspected report waits on access, and in Brunswick that step can run through a tenant, a manager or an owners corporation before a time is agreed. An Automated Market Assessment arrives the next business day.
No. A rates notice carries a figure struck for rating at a date the council chose, for a question that is not the one you are asking. A valuation covers the property you actually hold, at the date you actually need, with the sales it relied on set out beneath it. In Brunswick, where two very different kinds of holding sit side by side in the same street, a rating figure is a particularly poor stand-in.