Licensed Property Valuer – Perth role
Thursday, April 18th, 2024Garmony Property Consultants are interested in speaking to licensed valuers who are looking for some diversity in their property valuation career. Whether you already have experience in residential, commercial and industrial property valuations, or are looking to broaden your knowledge and experience in this area, we would love to hear from you. We have a Licensed Property Valuer – Perth role. If you are keen to; Be exposed to and gain experience in our more complex valuation and consultancy assignments. Work alongside property industry leaders, in a dynamic professional team. Travel all around Perth and Western Australia. Undertake a wide variety of valuations Then we have a role for you. About ...
Read moreVALE – John Garmony, Licensed Valuer
Tuesday, July 25th, 2023Garmony Property Consultants is deeply saddened to announce the passing of William “John” Garmony on 23 July 2023. John, along with his wife Pam, started the company known as John Garmony & Associates in May 1984. John was a highly respected licensed valuer and property professional in Perth & Western Australia. John started his property career in 1967 with Elders Smith Goldsbrough Mort initially in the stock sales yards and then in the Rural Land Sales Department. In 1968 he became a trainee valuer with Perth Building Society (PBS) (now Advance Bank) and was with Sterling Estates in 1972. Between 1972 ...
Read morePerth’s Licensed Valuers & Valuation Consultants
Tuesday, July 11th, 2023Welcome to Garmony Property Consultants, Perth’s Licensed Valuers & Valuation Consultants. One Perth’s longest standing independent property valuation company’s. https://www.garmony.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Garmony-Video-2022.mp4 Garmony Property Consultants Perth based team of independent licensed valuers and property valuation consultants, are highly regarded within Perth’s business and real estate community as one of Perth’s foremost property valuation companies, located in Perth, Western Australia (WA). Our expert licensed property valuers, prepare professional property valuation reports in the Perth Metropolitan and major Regional Areas of Western Australia (WA). Our licensed valuers based in Perth are recipients of the Australian Property Institute’s Continuing Professional Development Award and Excellence in Property Award and are ...
Read moreGarmony Property Consultants is now ISO 27001:2013 Certified
Friday, September 30th, 2022Garmony Property Consultants has implemented the ISO 27001 Information Security Management System (ISMS) which helps our property valuation business to manage assets such as financial information, intellectual property, employee details and other important information. An ISMS is a combination of processes and policies that help identify, manage, and protect vulnerable corporate data and information against various risks. Specifically the ISMS’s key objective is to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data and information in maintained. Garmony is now ISO 27001:2013 Certified. ISO/IEC 27001, is an internationally recognised structured methodology dedicated to information security and its related risk management processes. It defines the ...
Read moreMatt Garmony, Licensed Valuer elected to the WA State Committee of the API
Wednesday, September 18th, 2019Garmony Property Consultants Managing Director and Licensed Valuer, Matt Garmony, was advised today by the Australian Property Institute (API) that he has been elected as a WA State Committee Member of the API. In his response to the API on news of his appointment, Matt stated “Although I have been active on numerous sub-committees and represented the API on several panels since 2004, I have not been on the state board/committee since my last term in 2001-2004. I look forward to being an ongoing and active member of the API and the property industry.” Matt was chairman of the Young Property Professionals ...
Read morePerth Subdued Residential Market Update – Valuers Perspective
Friday, August 2nd, 2019Our Perth based property valuers continue to report subdued market conditions in the residential valuations they undertake. The Perth residential property market continues its long term slump. The median house price has fallen from $540,000 in June 2015 to $490,000 in June 2019 according to REIWA’s statistics. Sales volumes have also declined from 7116 homes to 4284 homes over the same period. WA Business News reported on 1 August 2019 that “Perth’s house price woes have worsened further, after it recorded the sharpest decline in median price of all Australian capital cities in June.” These subdued residential property market conditions in Perth ...
Read moreMarket Rental Valuation Reports – What should they include
Monday, July 22nd, 2019The Licensed Valuers at Garmony Property Consultants prepare detailed Market Rental Valuation Reports for Market Rent Reviews. So what do our reports include? Our valuation reports need to meet the strict guidelines and standards of the Australian Property Institute (API). It also needs to comply with the Code of Conduct for Expert Witnesses and in Australian Courts or Tribunals. The reader of the valuation report needs to obtain a clear understanding of the property, its location and its legal description. In some circumstances, the reader may be a judge, magistrate or mediator who has never visited the Property or Premises. So ...
Read moreCertified Practising Valuers
Thursday, June 13th, 2019A Certified Practising Valuer is Valuer meeting the requirements for Certified Practising Valuer as defined by the Australian Property Institute (API). All Licensed Valuers employed by Garmony Property Consultants are Certified Practising Valuers. The API’s description and definition of a Certified Practising Valuer is as follows; Certified Practising Valuer is a person who, by education, training and experience is qualified to perform a valuation of real property in an objective and independent manner to help reduce risk and provide greater certainty for their clients. Certified Practising Valuers, who are accredited with the API, are industry professionals, the most highly qualified and recognised ...
Read more35 Years of Property Valuation Advice in Perth
Friday, March 29th, 20192019 marks 35 years of providing expert Valuation and Property Consultancy advice in Perth and Western Australia for the Licensed Valuers at Garmony Property Consultants. Established in 1984, initially as John Garmony & Associates, the property valuation company immediately became one of Perth’s first and foremost independent property valuation & consultancy firms. In 2006, the company changed it’s name to Garmony Property Consultants with Licensed Valuer, Matt Garmony, taking over as Managing Director. Since 1984, the company’s licensed valuers at have acted in a wide range of property valuation consulting situations on numerous property types throughout Perth & Western Australia. For 35 years, ...
Read moreValuations for Family Court in WA
Thursday, March 14th, 2019The Licensed Valuers at Garmony Property Consultants are specialists in providing valuations for matrimonial disputes and the Family Court of Western Australia for Residential, Commercial & Industrial property types. Our valuers can act for a single party to the dispute or as a single expert where we are instructed by and provide our valuation report to both parties, eliminating further disputes and streamlining the divorce process in relation to the division of property assets. We can tailor our valuation reports to our clients requirements, providing shorter reports for amicable meditations, whereby the parties are in agreement and just need an independent assessment of ...
Read moreValuation clients reviews
Friday, August 3rd, 2018Garmony Property Consultants are very proud of the feedback we have received from our valuation client reviews, who are very satisfied with our property valuation services and knowledge of the Western Australian property market. From retirement village valuations to specialised property ground lease market rent reviews, government asset valuations to expert valuations for litigation purposes, residential developments to commercial offices and everything in between, our licensed valuers have the experience and expertise to undertake most property valuation assessments. Click on the logos below to read the reviews from some of our happy clients or head to our reviews page on ...
Read moreGarmony Property Consultants National Property Valuation Partnership
Wednesday, June 13th, 2018Garmony Property Consultants is proud to be a member of Oceanic Property Valuations (OPV) who along with its Partner Firms, form one of the few truly independent national property valuation organisations across Australia.
Garmony Property Consultants are the Western Australian partner firm of Oceanic Property Valuations who provide expert property valuation and consultancy advice in Perth and Western Australia from our Licensed Valuers. Oceanic Property Valuations (OPV) are a national property valuation company who operate across Australasia and comprises multi-skilled property valuers and professionals with extensive senior property valuation and consulting experience, which specialises in offering independent and impartial property advice to a private, corporate and ... Read moreStamp Duty and related party transfer valuations
Thursday, April 19th, 2018When a property is being ‘sold’ or transferred to a family member, related party or related entity (superannuation fund transfer or family trust transfer) the Office of State Revenue may require the purchaser to pay Stamp Duty or Transfer Duty. A Transfer duty is a general tax imposed under the Duties Act 2008 (‘Duties Act’) on dutiable transactions over dutiable property (whether documented or not) including transfers of real estate and certain business assets. A Stamp Duty Valuation will be required. An independent property valuation by a licensed valuer of the property is required before an assessment is issued, when a dutiable transaction is between related parties, or the parties are ...
Read moreWhat is involved in the Property Valuation Process?
Monday, September 4th, 2017The valuation process is a detailed systematic procedure a licensed valuer follows to determine the market value or market rental value of a property. Steps involved in valuation process are as follows: Written Instructions are required from client to comply with the Department of Mines, Industry Regulation & Safety (Formally the Department of Commerce) requirements which need to include the name of the instructing party, the property address, the purpose the valuation is required and date of valuation. The Pre-inspection process involves researching relevant property information including zoning and services information and title information. Comparable sales and or rental evidence is also compiled. Our ...
Read moreExpert Family Law Valuations
Thursday, August 31st, 2017Garmony Property Consultants are proud to be an exhibitor at this years Family Law Practitioners’ Association of Western Australia Conference on Saturday 9 September 2017. For those who are attending, please visit us and chat about our experience in providing Expert Family Law Valuations. Our Licensed Valuers and Property Consultants are specialists in providing valuations for matrimonial disputes and the Family Court of Western Australia for Residential, Commercial & Industrial property types. We can tailor our valuation reports providing shorter reports for amicable meditations, whereby the parties are in agreement and just need an independent assessment of the market value. We can also provide ...
Read moreExpert Family Law Valuations
Saturday, April 30th, 2016Garmony Property Consultants are one of Perth’s leading independent Licensed Valuers and Property Consultant firms specialising in valuations for Family Law for Residential, Commercial & Industrial property types. The Licensed, Certified Practicing Valuers at Garmony Property Consultants, have a combined experience in the real estate and property industry of over 70 years and has been established since 1984. Our Valuers have extensive experience in a broad range of property related valuation matters across a wide range of commercial, industrial, residential and specialist property types for real estate valuations and property consultancy situations in Perth and Regional locations in Western Australia. We prepare numerous ...
Read moreValuing Strata lots and difficulties encountered
Wednesday, July 1st, 2015Below is a summary of a presentation that Matt Garmony, Licensed Valuer and Managing Director of Garmony Property Consultants, gave to the Bachelor of Commerce – Property students at Curtin University in March 2015. The presentation provided the property students with an overview of Strata titled properties, Unit Entitlements, valuing strata lots and issues we have identified for strata titled properties into the future. Should you have any questions in relation to strata titled properties and the valuation process, our licensed valuers will be more than willing to assist. VALUING STRATA LOTS AND DIFFICULTIES ENCOUNTERED 2015.PDF
Read moreInsurance Valuations – Important Information
Wednesday, December 11th, 2013Maintaining a current assessment of the Insurance Replacement Value of Strata Titled complexes is important, particularly with the building construction costs escalations in recent years. In addition to building replacement costs, consideration needs to be given to changes in Town Planning Schemes and Zoning, particularly if the current zoning does not support or prohibits the replacement of the whole of the existing strata development. This is more essential within older suburbs where councils have made changes to their local Town Planning Schemes since buildings where originally constructed. Strata Complexes and their owners may be under insured and in risk of ...
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