Evidence to support your objection

Evidence to support your objection

You should provide evidence to support your objection. You must provide all the evidence you are relying on at the time you lodge your objection as there is no further opportunity to provide evidence later. Therefore, you should carefully consider the evidence you are providing to ensure that it supports your objection.

Your objection should focus on evidence that is relevant to the valuing year and that demonstrates your suggested land value is correct. If you do not provide supporting evidence, we will disallow your objection. 

What to provide

If you believe your land value is too high or too low you will need to:

• tell us what you think your land value should be, with an explanation and rationale supporting your contended land value
• provide three (3) sales to support your contended land value. You must tell us how or why the sales are comparable to your property. 

Sales evidence to support your objection 

To support your objection, you should reference sales of similar properties in the valuing year.

Where sales evidence is limited, older sales can be utilised although an explanation as to why the sale is relevant to the valuing year of your objection is required. If you are using the sale of your own property as evidence, it is optional to provide additional sales.  

The sales evidence should support your contended land value. You may use sales from the benchmark component report, valuation sales report or other sales information. These can be accessed from the Valuer General’s website or from your Information Kit if you have requested one.  The benchmark component report shows the purchase price and adjusted land value of property sales the valuer considered during the valuation process. The valuation sales report is a sample of sales in your area. 

Valuers determine a property’s adjusted land value by: 

• deducting the value of any improvements - you may find more information about this in the ‘Added value of improvements tables’ for your local government area at  valuergeneral.nsw.gov.au
• adjusting the sale price to reflect the property market as at 1 July in the valuing year 

If you cannot find sales of similar properties in your area in the valuing year, you should consider sales from other areas or years. You must provide the addresses, sale dates and details of how each property is or is not comparable to yours.