Our team of residential appraisers are ready to provide the highest quality reports and service to meet your appraisal needs. Each of our appraisers is a member in good standing with the Appraisal Institute of Canada (AIC). The AIC is a self‐regulated property valuation association and provides its members with membership categories, grants designations, regulates the educational requirements for members, and provides for Standards and a Code of Ethics that it’s members must abide by. The membership categories are Student, Candidate, CRA (Canadian Residential Appraiser), and AACI, P. App. (Accredited Appraiser of the Canadian Institute, Professional Appraiser).
Our team comprises AACI, P. App, CRA and Candidate members of the AIC. Any reports completed by a candidate must be co‐signed by a CRA or AACI, P. App. designated reviewer, with the reviewer/candidate relationship registered through the AIC website.
Our Team of residential appraisers include professionals with expertise in the following niche markets of valuation and consulting:
Our appraisers will be happy to serve you with any of your Residential Real Estate Valuation and Consulting needs.
The standards that members of the AIC must follow are known as CUSPAP, or the Canadian Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice. These standards as part of CUSPAP 2016 include an Ethics Standard, a Real Property Appraisal Standard, a Review Standard, a Consulting Standard, a Reserve Planning Standard, and a Machinery and Equipment Appraisal Standard.
The Real Property Appraisal Standard includes rules that deal with the minimum content necessary to produce a credible report. These contents include the following items summarized below:
Of particular note are the requirements to identify all assumptions and limiting conditions and identify any hypothetical conditions (including proposed improvements). A typical scenario that would require an assumption and limiting condition, as well as a hypothetical condition would be the appraisal of a home that is yet to be constructed, but with a request by the client to value the property “as if 100% complete”. The report would be completed with an assumption/hypothetical condition such as...
"As of the date of inspection, the proposed construction had not yet commenced. However, this report is based on the assumption that the property will be developed and completed according to the plans and specifications identified and described herein and that the standard of construction is in accordance with that assumed within the report. The client/reader is specifically cautioned that it should be specifically noted that any significant deviation in respect of style, layout, design or construction standards would invalidate the value conclusions reached in this report. Therefore, we have invoked an extraordinary limitation under the CUSPAP guidelines, as the appraised value is based upon the above referenced assumptions."
Furthermore, for clarity of the effective date of the appraisal, the following may be included...
"In addition, please note that the appraised value represents the "as if 100% complete" value on the effective date of appraisal only, and does not represent a prospective (future) value at a point in time when the construction is in fact complete. The client/reader is cautioned that market conditions may change between the effective date of appraisal and completion date of the construction, and a new or update appraisal is recommended upon completion of construction to confirm the current market value at that time.
Our residential appraisal fees are based upon the complexity, the time, and the research required to complete a particular appraisal assignment. In order to provide an adequate fee quote for our appraisal services, we require the following types of information:
The above questions summarize the types of typical information we would require to provide a fee quote for our appraisal services. Our support staff may be able to ask some of these initial questions, but the appraiser may also need to follow‐up in order to provide an accurate fee quote. The time frame is important to agree upon at the outset, so that there are not expectations that we cannot meet in this regard.
For all of your residential appraisal needs, contact Niemi LaPorte & Dowle Appraisals Ltd.