CGT property valuations in Canberra.

How does ACT leasehold tenure affect a CGT valuation?

Canberra land is held under 99-year Crown leases rather than freehold, so the interest being valued is the leasehold interest — and the report must say so.

In practice the market treats residential Crown leases much like freehold, and values reflect that. But a valuation that describes the interest incorrectly invites a question that is entirely avoidable.

Where the lease carries a specific purpose clause, or where lease variation or deconcessionalisation is relevant, that must be identified at the valuation date because it affects what could lawfully be done with the site.

Are Canberra unit title properties valued differently?

Unit title properties are valued on the individual unit, with regard to the unit entitlement, the scheme's condition and the sub-market the scheme sits in.

Canberra has a large stock of townhouse and apartment schemes across the inner north, inner south and town centres. Values within a scheme vary by orientation, courtyard, parking and outlook.

Where a scheme has known defect or remediation issues, the effect on value at the valuation date is stated rather than left implicit.

Do you cover Queanbeyan and the surrounding NSW region?

Yes. Queanbeyan, Googong, Bungendore, Murrumbateman and Yass are covered alongside the ACT, using the same valuers.

The Canberra region operates as a single market across the border, and comparable evidence is routinely drawn from both sides of it where the properties are genuinely comparable.

Because the tenure differs — freehold in NSW, Crown lease in the ACT — any cross-border comparison is adjusted and explained rather than applied directly.

Common Canberra CGT scenarios we value

Homes rented out during a posting or deployment and sold years later

Public service relocations triggering the six-year absence rule

Deceased estates across the inner north and inner south

SMSF-held commercial property in the town centres and Fyshwick

Areas we cover across Canberra

Our ACT panel covers every district of Canberra plus Queanbeyan, Googong, Jerrabomberra, Bungendore, Murrumbateman and Yass.

Canberra CGT valuation questions