A professional assessment of what a property would sell for on the open market at a specific date, supported by comparable sales evidence and prepared to recognised valuation standards. It is a considered, evidenced figure, not an asking price or a marketing estimate.
A valuation establishes what a property is worth. A structural survey assesses its physical condition and identifies defects. They answer different questions and are separate instructions. Lenders frequently require both. JWL provides valuations.
An estate agent’s appraisal is usually free, usually verbal, and usually connected to a pitch for the selling instruction. A formal valuation is an independent written report from a licensed valuer, setting out the evidence and reasoning, and prepared to be relied upon by a lender, a solicitor, a court or Revenue.
A valuation states a value as at a specific date. In practice, most lenders and institutions treat a report as current for around three to six months, though each sets its own requirement. If yours has expired, an update is usually quicker and cheaper than a fresh instruction.
Houses, apartments, period properties, buy-to-let and investment properties, residential portfolios, sites and land, across Dublin and Leinster.
It depends on the property, its location and the type of report required, a lender valuation and a court-ready family law report involve very different amounts of work. Tell us what you need and we will come back to you with a fee before anything starts.
Often, yes. Tell us the deadline when you first make contact and we will tell you honestly whether we can meet it.
The property address, what the valuation is for, who will be receiving the report, and any form or template that party has issued. If access is with someone else, such as a tenant, a family member or an agent, we will need their details too.
Yes. Probate valuations are a substantial part of our work. We value as at the date of death using comparable evidence from that period, in a format suited to Form SA.2, and we deal with your solicitor directly if that is easier.
Yes. Retrospective valuation is routine for us, for CGT, CAT, probate and legal purposes, using evidence from the market as it stood at the relevant date.
Yes. We prepare independent valuations for the HSE Nursing Homes Support Scheme financial assessment, in the format the HSE expects.
Yes, and it is frequently the most efficient approach, a single agreed valuer removes one point of dispute and one set of fees. We are equally happy to be instructed by one party, and the report is prepared to the same standard either way.
Our reports are prepared to European Valuation Standards by a PSRA-licensed, IPAV-registered valuer, and they document the evidence and methodology behind the figure. That is what makes a valuation capable of being relied upon and defended. We cannot speak for any individual decision-maker, but an evidenced report is considerably more robust than an unsupported figure.
Yes. We prepare reports in lenders’ required formats and to European Valuation Standards. If your lender has a specific template or a panel requirement, tell us when you get in touch.
It can. Most lenders price by loan to value band, so if your property has risen in value or your balance has fallen, a current valuation may support a move into a cheaper band. Before instructing anyone, ask your lender three things: whether they will re-band on an updated valuation, whether the valuer must be on their panel, and how recent the report has to be. That one call tells you whether it is worth doing.
Almost never. A new lender requires a current valuation instructed for its own purposes.
A valuation prepared in accordance with European Valuation Standards, published by TEGoVA and known in the industry as the Blue Book. Our director, Shane Cooke, holds TEGoVA’s REV accreditation, awarded in Ireland through IPAV.
The greater Dublin area in full, together with Kildare, Wicklow, Meath, Louth, Carlow, Kilkenny, Laois, Longford, Offaly, Westmeath and Wexford.
Yes. JWL operates under PSRA Licence No. 004865, and our work is carried out by IPAV-registered valuers. Our director, Shane Cooke, holds the TEGoVA REV and RESI designations.
A qualified JWL valuer inspects the property, prepares the report and puts their name to it. You can always speak to the valuer who did the work.
No. Valuation is all we do. That independence is the reason our valuations are worth having.
Email hello@jwl.ie or send us the details and we will come back to you.
Tell us about the property and what the valuation is for, and we will come back to you with a fee before anything starts.
Or email hello@jwl.ie