Independent, CUSPAP-compliant litigation appraisals for family law, estates, expropriation, and civil disputes across Southwestern Ontario and the Greater Toronto Area.
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When we accept a retainer in a contested matter, our obligation runs to the court, not to the party who retained us. We sign the Acknowledgment of Expert’s Duty and we mean it. That independence is what makes the report useful to you — a valuation that visibly bends toward the retaining party is worth less than no valuation at all.
What that means in practice: we reach the conclusion the evidence supports, and we are available to explain how we got there. Where the terms of the retainer allow it, we are glad to discuss the analysis as it develops.
Any matter in which the value of real property is in issue. The valuation question is the same regardless of the cause of action.
Retrospective valuations for change of use and deemed disposition, prepared to withstand CRA review.
Before-and-after valuations, partial takings, and quantification of injurious affection to the remainder.
Where an opposing expert's report is in evidence, we prepare a written critique identifying methodological error, comparable selection problems, unsupported adjustments, and departures from CUSPAP. This can be retained as a standalone engagement without commissioning a full appraisal of our own.
Retrospective valuations prepared to the effective dates counsel identifies, to the standard required for use at trial. Where more than one date is in issue, a single appraiser working all of them produces consistent methodology across the set.
Retrospective market value as at date of death for probate, tax reporting, and distribution among beneficiaries. Complex holdings — mixed commercial and residential, multiple parcels under common ownership, properties with legal non-conforming elements.
Valuation of real property held within an operating entity or a partnership in dissolution, including development land, industrial, and mixed-use assets.
Most appraisal reports adjust a handful of comparable sales using percentages the appraiser derived from experience. On cross-examination, the question is always the same: where did that adjustment come from? In many reports, the honest answer is professional judgment.
We build our adjustments from regression analysis of the market itself. Time-series regression measures the rate of market movement over the relevant period and produces a date-of-sale adjustment as a calculated figure. Power-curve regression measures how value responds to size — lot area, building area — across the full population of transactions rather than by a rule of thumb.
This matters most on a file that turns on movement between two dates — a failed closing, for example, where the question is what the property was worth on the original closing date. Whether or not the property was later resold, a time-series regression measures what the market did in between, with the calculation shown.
The result is a value indication supported by independently generated market evidence. The adjustments are stated as equations. They can be reproduced by anyone with the same dataset, which means they can be tested — and that is precisely the point.
Accredited Appraiser Canadian Institute — the Appraisal Institute of Canada’s senior designation, qualifying the holder to value all property types without restriction as to value or complexity. Reports prepared in accordance with CUSPAP 2026. Available for retainer as an expert witness, including report preparation, attendance at mediation and arbitration, and testimony at trial.
