- Financing either privately or by banks - to determine the value of the security offered.
- Securitisation - to provide an investor with a sound basis for deciding whether to purchase real estate mortgages, bonds or other types of security.
- Purchase - considerations to help buyers decide on offering prices.
- Investment and speculation considerations inclusive of counselling a client on acquisition matters determining goals, alternatives, resources, constraints and timing.
- To facilitate corporation or third party purchase of homes of transferred employees.
- Sale considerations to assist sellers in determining an acceptable price for a property.
- Liquidation values for forced sale or auction proceedings.
- To determine a basis for exchanges of real estate.
- To determine the feasibility of construction or renovation considerations.
- Rezoning inclusive of the probable effects of proposed actions.
- Financial Statement reporting.
- Mergers or takeovers inclusive of re-organisation or combining multiple property portfolios and the issuance of shares or revision of book values.
- Rates and taxes assessment or objections.
- Rent reviews and lease considerations.
- Insurance to facilitate the needs of the insured, insurer and/or adjuster.
- Arbitration and litigation between adversaries.
- To determine the value of a property bare dominium (value of a property subject to another right such as a usufruct or right of use) or the value of the usufruct.
- To determine the feasibility of converting a single freehold property to multiple ownership such as sectionalisation, time-sharing, fractional ownership and joint ownerships.
- Expropriation - to facilitate just compensation including estimating the value of the property as a whole - that is before the taking and to estimate the value after the taking, so as to allocate market values between the part taken and damage to the remainder.
- Taxation issues such as Capital Gains Tax.
- For deceased estates and determination of gift or inheritance taxes.
- Real Estate management and decision making.
- To determine supply and demand trends in a market.
- To determine the status of real estate markets.
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