Services... Valuations & Appraisals


Auction Street appraisers are valuation professionals with over 16 years of experience. Auction Street Appraisal Group represents as valuation, appraisal and corporate recovery consultants of industrial plant, machinery and equipment, stock and inventory.
Auction Street Appraisal Group advises clients on valuation issues, required mainly for purchase, disposal, loan collateral, public offering or floatation, merger, privatization, financial statements and dispute resolution purposes.

Valuations and Appraisals are provided for the following purposes:

  • Financial Statements
  • Funding Collateral
  • Residual Value Forecasting
  • Public offering and Floatation
  • Taxation & Tax Depreciation
  • Allocation of Purchase Price
  • Asset Acquisition and Disposal
  • Merger and Take-over
  • Corporate Recovery and Insolvency
  • Expert Witness
  • Privatization
  • Dispute Resolution
  • Life Cycle Analysis
  • Insurance

Our Specialties

Computers and High-Tech Property - Our specialists appraise all types of computers, from small personal computers to the largest mainframes, and all of the related components, including tape and disk drives and printers. They appraise complex electronic equipment including everything from large telephone switching systems to oscilloscopes, from medical and dental equipment to small hand-held instruments to X-ray machines and CAT scanners.

Industrials - Auction Street industrials appraiser values the property, plant and equipment of heavy industry and the process industries, including, but not limited to, oil refineries, steel mills, smelters and mineral mills, extrusion, sheet and plate manufacturers. In such operations it is extremely difficult to separate the values of the real property, machinery and equipment, and intangibles in any meaningful way, yet the appraiser must consider both total and component values.

Machinery and Equipment (M&E) - Appraisers in this specialty are professionally qualified to evaluate all types of industrial properties; machine shops; refineries; hospitals; communications facilities; transportation equipment; process facilities; construction equipment; office machines, such as computers, copiers and word processors; as well as the entire contents of buildings. The M&E appraiser provides estimates of fair market value, fair market value in use and valuation for ad valorem tax purposes. Additionally, equipment analysis for future and residual values is fast becoming one of the more common assignments for today's M&E appraiser.

The following include some definitions to help you understand the Appraisal process.

DEFINITIONS -

Fair Market Value: The amount of money at which a given property would change hands between a willing buyer and a willing seller, in an appropriate marketplace, when neither is acting under compulsion and when both have reasonable knowledge of relevant facts.

Fair Market Value: (Installed) The amount of money at which a given installed property would change hands between a willing buyer and a willing seller, in an appropriate marketplace, when neither is acting under compulsion and when both have reasonable knowledge of relevant facts.

Fair Market Value: (Removal) The amount of money at which a given property would change hands between a willing buyer and a willing seller, in an appropriate marketplace, when neither is acting under compulsion and when both have reasonable knowledge of relevant facts, considering removal of the property to another location, as of a specific date.

Fair Market Value In Continued Use (FMVICU): The amount of money at which a given property would change hands between a willing buyer and a willing seller, in an appropriate marketplace, when neither is acting under compulsion and when both have reasonable knowledge of relevant facts, including installation and other turnkey costs and assumes that the earnings support the value reported.

Orderly Liquidation Value (OLV): The amount of gross proceeds which could be expected from the sale of the appraised assets, held under orderly sale conditions, given a reasonable period of time in which to find a purchaser(s) considering a completed sale of all assets, "as is and where is," with the buyer assuming all costs of removal, with all sales made free and clear of all liens and encumbrances, with the seller acting under compulsion.

Forced Liquidation Value (FLV): The estimated gross amount of money that could typically be realized from a properly advertised and conducted public auction, with a seller who is compelled to sell with a sense of immediacy on an as-is where-is basis, as of a specific date.

Replacement Cost: The cost of replacing an existing property with one of equal utility, although the same materials or the same design may not be used, reflecting changes in technology, design, building techniques and costs.

Reproduction Cost: The expense necessary to construct an exact duplicate of a subject property, considering current prices for identical components, criteria, design, arrangement, and quality.

Salvage Value: The expected residual value of an asset at the end of its economic life.

Scrap Value: The amount that may be realized if property is sold for its material content, as opposed to further productive use.

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