Property Rates Reduction

Property Rates Reduction: Our Pipeline

There is a huge possibility that your municipal valuation maybe incorrect. In fact, most municipal valuations are not correct at all leaving property owners with exorbitant property rates to settle every month.

As a property owner if you suspect that you may be paying too much for your rates, then you probably are and this is where we come in. Once appointed, Fair Property Valuations will conduct a series of steps;

Screening

An initial assessment which helps to determine if there are any grounds for you to make an objection in the first place.

This process allows us to correctly value and categorise your property. The findings of this process will help instruct whether to continue with lodging an objection or not and also help provide a provisional value of the property to the client.

Valuation Objection

Based on the results of the screening process, FPV may then commence with the next step which may be the lodging of the objection process or the valuation review process. The decision to pursue one or the other merely depends on whether municipal valuations are open for objections or not at the time.

If the opportunity to lodge an objection is lost due to the period being closed, our team will prepare a request for a supplementary valuation in terms of the Municipal Property Rates Act.

If the property ends up being included in the supplementary valuation roll by the municipal valuer, then our team will advise whether an objection should be lodged or not based on the entry.

Valuation Appeal

If the outcome during the objection process is unsatisfactory, FPV will prepare and submit an appeal to the Valuation Appeal Board in dispute to the outcome.

Part of our services to you are to represent you at the hearing of the appeal board which happens to be an independent body appointed by the Provincial Government. The decision of the appeal board is final and can only be contested in the High Court.