The five questions every registered valuer asks before applying to the Valuers4U panel. Plain answers, no marketing copy, no fine print buried at the bottom. If your question is not on the list, the booking link below opens a fifteen-minute call.
Two fees, both on the valuer side, both named up front. The instructing professional and the client pay nothing.
The brief is distributed to all panel valuers within the property’s state, with the Introduction Fee applied only to the first three respondents, while the Success Fee is strictly contingent upon the valuer being formally engaged to complete the assignment.
Introduction Fee — applied only to the first three valuers who respond with a quote on each brief. Valuers in the state who see the brief but do not respond pay nothing. Valuers whose response arrives after the first three quotes are in are not charged either. Because each brief naturally caps at three Introduction Fees once three quotes are received, the total platform revenue per brief is bounded by design. The Introduction Fee covers the blind-quote routing, the written conflict-of-interest disclosure handling and the procurement record retention.
Success Fee — strictly contingent on the valuer being formally engaged to complete the assignment. If you submit a quote and another panel valuer is engaged, you pay nothing further — your Introduction Fee on the brief is the only cost. If you are engaged but the assignment does not complete, no Success Fee is invoiced. The Success Fee is invoiced after the engagement is formally completed and the client has paid your invoice.
Specific Introduction Fee and Success Fee amounts are disclosed on the panel application page and at quote submission — pricing is a commercial arrangement between the valuer and Valuers4U.
The platform charges no joining fee, no subscription, no retainer, no annual membership and no exit fee. Briefs you receive cost nothing — the cost only triggers when you submit a quote and you are one of the first three respondents on that brief.
An instructing professional — a solicitor, accountant, mortgage broker, trustee, auditor or lender — lodges a single brief through the platform. The platform distributes that brief to all structurally independent registered valuers on the state panel (the panel for the property’s state). The first three panel valuers to respond return a blind quote — each prepared on the basis of the brief alone, without sight of the other two valuers’ bids. All three quotes are returned inside 48 hours. The instructing professional reviews all three quotes and appoints the preferred valuer.
The procurement record — the original brief, the three blind quotes, the written conflict-of-interest disclosures and the appointment decision — is retained for the file. That record is what makes a Valuers4U-sourced engagement defensible in front of an auditor, a regulator, a trustee, a credit committee or a court.
You are paid directly by the client, on your own engagement letter terms, on your own letterhead, under your own professional indemnity. The platform is not in the engagement flow — there is no escrow, no payment intermediation, no client funds held by the platform. The engagement runs between you and the client.
After the engagement is completed and the client has paid you, the platform invoices you for the success fee on the schedule disclosed in the panel terms. The platform never deducts the success fee from a client payment or holds funds in trust.
The instructing professional appoints the valuer they prefer after seeing all three blind quotes side-by-side. Fee is one input but not the only one. Different briefs prioritise different things:
The blind quote model means you compete on merit — fee, turnaround and specialist capability — rather than on which firm employs you or which integrated group you sit inside.
The panel is structurally designed for registered Australian valuers who hold current professional indemnity insurance and who want to compete on independence and capability rather than on which group employs them. Panel members are typically:
The model may not align with valuers who hold an in-house valuation role inside a multi-service property firm that simultaneously holds property management, sales or brokerage mandates over the same assets. The blind procurement record requires a written declaration that the valuer holds no such mandate over the subject property.
The application is short — registration details, professional indemnity, state, asset classes you cover, capacity. If approved, you are added to the routing pool for your state and asset mix. There is no minimum-volume commitment and no exclusivity.
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