What determines the cost of a valuation

What the price depends on

A valuation is not a standardised, off-the-shelf product. Two apartments of identical floor area can require completely different work: one has full cadastral documentation and dozens of comparable transactions on the market, the other has an unclear legal status and almost no analogues. That is why the cost is shaped not by a tariff table but by the factors that genuinely drive the volume of work.

• Type of object: an apartment, a house, a land plot, commercial premises, equipment, a vehicle or an operating business — each calls for a different approach, different data sources and a different calculation logic.
• Scale and complexity: analysing a one-bedroom apartment and valuing a multi-building production complex or a company with a group structure are simply not comparable in effort.
• Completeness of your documents: when the extract from the public registry, floor plans and technical documentation are already in hand, the process is shorter. Missing or contradictory paperwork has to be reconciled first, and that is additional work.
• Location and site inspection: the service covers the whole of Georgia, including Batumi and Adjara, but travelling to the object and inspecting it on site is part of a working day and is reflected in the overall scope.
• Purpose of the report: a conclusion prepared for a bank, a court, a residence permit application, insurance or tax purposes carries different formal requirements and a different level of detail.
• Urgency: the standard turnaround is known in advance. If you need the report faster than usual, that means rearranging the schedule and is agreed separately.

What is included in every report

The factors vary; the quality floor of the report does not. Whatever the object and whatever its purpose, each conclusion includes:

• Methodology compliant with IVS standards — the approach applied is described openly and justified, not merely declared.
• A market-value conclusion — supported by comparable data, the calculation itself and a final summary.
• A photographic annex — a record of the object's actual condition on the day of inspection.
• The valuer's certificate details — real estate: A-1575; movable property: P-1141; REV (TEGoVA), registration REV-UA/USOA/2025/2.
• A document accepted by banks and state bodies — the report is prepared in a form suitable for official submission.

Turnaround

The timeline is part of the quote and is fixed before work begins:

• Real estate (standard residential object): 3–7 working days.
• Business valuation: 7–14 working days, depending on the scale of the company and the availability of information.

The clock starts once the object has been inspected and the necessary documentation has been received. That is exactly why preparing documents in advance shortens the whole process — and why document completeness is a factor in both timing and scope.

How to get a quote

An exact quote is prepared from a short description of the object, usually the same or the next working day. The more specific your description, the more precise the answer and the fewer clarifying questions are needed. Send:

• the type of object — apartment, house, land, commercial premises, equipment, vehicle or business;
• the address or location;
• the area or key technical parameters;
• the purpose of the valuation — bank, court, residence permit, insurance, tax or a transaction;
• which documents you already have — registry extract, floor plan, technical passport, financial statements.

You can get in touch by phone on +995 598 525 997, via WhatsApp on the same number, or by email at info@valuator.ge. If the documents are not to hand yet, that is not an obstacle — describe the object in as much detail as you currently can and the rest can be clarified in conversation.

Why there is no fixed price list

A fixed tariff is convenient only at first glance. In practice it creates two problems. First, it overcharges simple objects, because the risk of difficult cases is priced into the tariff in advance — so the owner of a standard apartment ends up paying for complexity their property never had. Second, it under-serves complex objects, because a full analysis does not fit inside a pre-agreed figure and the work is forced to become superficial.

The cost of that second outcome is far higher than it looks. A shallow conclusion may fail to meet the requirements of a bank or a state body, come back for rework, and restart the process from the beginning. It is more honest to price a specific task than to publish a number that will either overcharge you or fail to serve the purpose you needed it for.

None of this means uncertainty. The opposite: the factors that shape the cost are listed openly above, the quote is prepared quickly, and it is fixed before the work begins. You know precisely what you are paying for and when the finished report will arrive.