Date-of-death and probate valuations for executors, estate lawyers, accountants and public trustees. Audit-trailed, retrospective-date capable, and aligned with ATO cost-base requirements.
The property in a deceased estate is rarely the only asset, but it is almost always the most contested one. Beneficiaries who receive equivalent value from other estate assets — cash, investments, superannuation — want comfort that the property was valued at fair market value, not at a number convenient to the beneficiary inheriting the dwelling. Executors who select a single valuer based on prior relationship can find that decision questioned, sometimes years later.
Valuers4U routes the brief to three Certified Practising Valuers covering the property's local market. Each returns a fee, a turnaround commitment and a written conflict-of-interest disclosure inside 48 hours. The executor (or their solicitor) compares the three quotes and appoints. The CPV engages the estate directly under their own letter of engagement and prepares the date-of-death or current-date valuation as instructed.
Property address, deceased name (anonymised on the panel side), date of death, valuation date (date-of-death or current), report purpose (probate / CGT cost base / distribution), executor or solicitor contact.
Three panel members in the property's local market each return a fee, a turnaround commitment and a written conflict-of-interest disclosure for the estate.
Compare and appoint. The valuer engages the estate directly under their own letter of engagement and prepares the valuation. The procurement record sits on the estate file.
To substantiate estate asset values for the grant of probate, to establish the date-of-death cost base for ATO capital gains tax purposes, and to support equitable distribution between beneficiaries where one inherits the property and others receive equivalent assets.
Date-of-death residential valuations typically quote between $660 and $1,650 (GST-inclusive). Complex matters generally quote between $1,100 and $3,300. Three independent quotes inside 48 hours set the price by the market.
A retrospective valuation establishing the market value of the property as at the date the deceased died, regardless of when the valuation is actually performed. Required for ATO CGT cost-base purposes and for accurate estate accounting.
Yes. Typically the executor (or their solicitor or accountant) instructs, but a beneficiary can also lodge — for example, where the beneficiary intends to acquire the property at fair market value and wants three independent CPV quotes to evidence that fairness.
Yes. Panel CPVs routinely prepare retrospective valuations using historical sales evidence, contemporaneous market commentary and dwelling-condition evidence to value the property as at a specified past date.
No. Valuers4U pays no rebate, kickback or referral fee to instructing professionals or their firms. The estate is not paying a hidden margin to the solicitor's firm via the valuation procurement.
Sixty seconds to lodge. Three Certified Practising Valuers competing inside forty-eight hours. A documented procurement trail for the estate file. No fee to your firm or to the estate at any stage.
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