Lock in your property cost base with a certified valuation from $169.

It is an evidenced market valuation that establishes the first element of your property's cost base, the starting figure the ATO subtracts from your sale proceeds to work out a capital gain. Getting that figure right, and evidenced, matters because every dollar of cost base you can substantiate is a dollar that isn't taxed as gain. The report comes with comparable sales, a documented methodology and a signed valuer statement, so your accountant can lock the figure in and carry it forward until the property is eventually sold.

A CGT valuation focuses on the market value at a specific CGT event, usually around a sale, when the tax is about to be worked out. A cost base valuation is about the other end of the timeline: establishing and substantiating the durable starting figure your cost base is built on, often years before you dispose of the property. Ordering it close to the event that set your cost base, while the sales evidence is fresh in everyone's mind, means the number is ready and evidenced when the disposal finally happens, instead of being reconstructed under time pressure years later.

Yes. Every Cost Base Valuation Report is prepared in line with the ATO's market-valuation guidelines, with comparable sales, methodology and a signed valuer statement, the kind of evidenced figure expected to substantiate a cost base. The ATO's consistent position is that a valuation is only as good as the process behind it; a documented, independent report answers that test in a way a real-estate appraisal or an online estimate cannot.

Yes. Many cost base events sit in the past, the day a home first earned income, the day a property was inherited, or a gift or below-market acquisition. We value the property as at that exact date, backed by historical comparable sales from that period, so the figure reflects the market as it stood then. Even if the event was many years ago the sales records survive, nominate the date when ordering and the valuer builds the evidence around it.

The report focuses on the first element, the market value that sets your cost base, and can also value capital improvements added later, which form separate cost base elements in their own right. Your accountant combines these with the other elements, acquisition costs such as stamp duty and conveyancing fees, plus ownership and improvement costs, when working out the final gain. The valuation supplies the evidenced market figures; your accountant assembles the full cost base from them.

Not usually. The valuer works from land records, comparable sales and property data to produce a desktop valuation, which is faster, more economical and, for retrospective dates, the only sensible approach, an inspection today can't observe the property as it stood years ago. A full in-person inspection is available through our Certified Valuation where a matter calls for it, such as a property with features the records don't capture.