An independent valuation your bank, your solicitor and the ATO will accept.
Fixed-fee residential valuations by API-certified Certified Practising Valuers. Every capital city and major regional centre. Reports in 3–5 business days.
RPV provides independent residential property valuations across Australia, prepared by Certified Practising Valuers certified by the Australian Property Institute. Reports are accepted by courts, the Australian Taxation Office, state revenue offices and lenders, and are delivered 3–5 business days after inspection. Fees are fixed and quoted in writing once the purpose, the property and the valuation date are known. RPV is the residential valuation division of Asset Valuations Group.
Start with your situation
Each page names who accepts the report, whether it can be dated to the past, and what it costs.
Find the valuation that matches your situation.
Each purpose has its own requirements — who accepts the report, whether it has to be dated to the past, and what evidence has to sit behind it.
Family law and separation
Sworn valuations for property settlement, prepared to stand up in court and to a solicitor's timetable.
Family law valuationsDeceased estate and probate
Retrospective date-of-death valuations for executors, probate and dividing an estate fairly.
Date of death valuationsCapital gains tax
Market value at a specific past date, set out and evidenced the way your accountant needs it.
How CGT valuation dates workSMSF asset valuation
Annual market value evidence for your fund's audit and its ATO reporting obligations.
SMSF valuation requirementsStamp duty and related party transfer
Transfers between family members and related entities, valued for your state revenue office.
Talk to us about duty evidencePre-sale and pre-purchase
An independent number before you list, or before you sign — from someone with nothing to sell.
Talk to us before you signRefinance and removing LMI
Independent evidence to put in front of a lender when the bank's number looks wrong.
Talk to us about lender evidenceLand tax objection
Site value evidence for an objection, lodged inside your state's objection window.
Talk to us about an objectionInsurance replacement cost
Rebuild cost assessments, so a renewal figure isn't a guess you carry the risk on.
Talk to us about rebuild costMarket rent determination
Independent rent assessments for lease reviews and determinations under a lease clause.
Talk to us about a rent reviewCompulsory acquisition
Valuation and compensation advice when an authority acquires part or all of your land.
Talk to us about compensationTell us the situation
Describe what's happened and we'll tell you which valuation you need — or that you don't need one.
A bank valuation is not your valuation. An appraisal is not a valuation at all.
Three numbers get called a valuation in this country and only one of them is commissioned by you, addressed to you, and defensible on your behalf.
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| Independent valuation | Bank valuation | Agent appraisal | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who commissions it | You | The lender | Nobody — it is free for a reason |
| Who the report belongs to | You, in writing | The lender, and often never released | No report is produced |
| Prepared by | An API-certified Certified Practising Valuer | A valuer instructed by the lender | A sales agent |
| What it is for | Market value for your matter | Assessing the bank's security risk | Setting a listing price |
| Physical inspection | Full internal and external | Sometimes desktop or kerbside | A brief walk-through |
| Retrospective dating | Yes — to a date of death, transfer or acquisition | No | No |
| Used for courts, the ATO and lenders | Prepared for exactly that purpose | Not available to you to use | Not accepted |
| What it costs | Fixed fee, quoted upfront | Bundled into the loan | Free |
Acceptance of any valuation report is ultimately a matter for the court, agency or lender receiving it. We prepare reports to the standards those parties require and state the basis of value and date of valuation on every one.
Four steps, and you know the timing at each one.
You request a quote
Three short steps. Purpose, property, and the date you need it by.
We quote a fixed fee
One number, in writing, once we know the purpose, the property and the valuation date. It does not change on delivery. No obligation.
A valuer inspects
A local Certified Practising Valuer measures, photographs and records the property in person, at a time arranged with whoever holds access.
The report lands
A full written valuation with sales evidence, signed by the valuer who inspected it.
Every capital city and the major regional centres.
Each location has a named covering valuer, real suburb coverage and the state requirements that apply there — not the same page with the city name swapped.
Who is signing your report, and what stands behind it.
API certification
Every report is signed by a Certified Practising Valuer, certified by the Australian Property Institute.
Professional indemnity insurance
Current professional indemnity cover is held on every valuer who signs a report.
Written for the receiving party
Reports are prepared to the standard the court, the ATO or the lender requires for that purpose.
Turnaround commitment
Standard reports in 3–5 business days from inspection. If a deadline is tighter than that, say so when you enquire.
Fixed fee, quoted upfront
One number before any work starts. No hourly billing and no variation without your agreement.
Named valuers
You know who is inspecting and who signs before you engage us — named, with registrations you can verify.
Jarrad Khoury
Jarrad has over ten years in the industry and is a Certified Practising Valuer with the Australian Property Institute, registered in Queensland and licensed in Western Australia, in both cases without limitation.
Alongside residential valuation he leads the Business Valuation Services division at Asset Valuations Group, specialising in financial investigations and expert evidence on value, loss, damages and solvency. That work is why RPV reports are written to be read by the party receiving them — a court, the ATO or a lender — not just filed.
Instructing on behalf of a client?
A referral account gives you one instruction form, direct contact with the valuer on the file, and turnaround dates you can put in a letter to your client.
A new practice, and we are not going to pretend otherwise.
RPV is newly established, so there are no client reviews to show you yet. Judge us on the things that can be checked instead.
Read a real report first
Ask for a redacted sample valuation before you engage us. You can see the evidence, the reasoning and the format you would receive.
Check the certification yourself
Our valuers' Certified Practising Valuer status is verifiable with the Australian Property Institute. We publish the names so you can check them.
Talk to the valuer, not a call centre
Call the direct line and you speak to the person who would inspect your property and sign the report.
This section becomes client testimonials once real ones exist, with written consent and the client's name or initials, suburb and purpose attached. Nothing is written on their behalf before then.
The questions we are actually asked.
Answered plainly, including the ones where the honest answer is that you may not need us.
How much does an independent property valuation cost?
There is no single flat rate. We quote a fixed fee in writing once three things are known: the purpose of the valuation, the property itself, and the valuation date. Those three set the scope of work, and the scope sets the fee. Once quoted, it does not change on delivery. Retrospective dates, rural or unusual properties, multiple titles and court-ready reporting all increase scope and therefore fee.
What sets the feeHow long does a property valuation take?
The written report is delivered 3–5 business days after the inspection. The inspection itself is arranged with whoever holds access, so total elapsed time depends mainly on access rather than on us. If a matter is running against a court or revenue office deadline, say so when you enquire and we will tell you honestly whether the date is achievable before you instruct.
The full processWill the ATO accept a real estate agent's appraisal?
Generally no. An appraisal is a marketing opinion, is not prepared to a valuation standard, and carries no professional liability. Where the tax law requires market value, the ATO expects a valuation stating the basis of value, the valuation date, the comparable evidence relied on and the valuer's assumptions. An appraisal does none of those things.
Valuation vs appraisal, comparedWho can legally value a property in Australia?
Queensland, Western Australia and some other jurisdictions maintain statutory registers of valuers, and there the work is restricted to registered valuers. Elsewhere the control is professional rather than statutory, and the accepted standard is a Certified Practising Valuer certified by the Australian Property Institute. In practice courts, the ATO and revenue offices expect a CPV whichever state the property sits in.
The rules, with sourcesCan you value a property at a date in the past?
Yes. A retrospective valuation assesses market value as at a specified past date using only the sales evidence that existed at that date. It is routine for date of death, capital gains tax cost base and separation matters, and can be prepared months or years after the fact. What the valuer must not do is let later market movement influence the figure.
How retrospective dating worksDo you cover regional areas as well as capital cities?
Yes — every capital city and the major regional centres. Coverage in each state is provided by a valuer registered or certified to practise in that jurisdiction, because statutory requirements, revenue office evidence rules and objection deadlines differ between states. If a property is genuinely remote we will tell you before you instruct whether we can attend and what it changes about the fee.
Where we coverTell us what you need. We quote a fixed fee.
We quote a fixed fee in writing before any work starts. If we can’t meet your deadline we will tell you that instead of taking the job.