IPART has completed its review of prices for Valuer General’s services to councils from 1 July 2025.
The Valuer General may charge councils for land valuation services. Land valuations are the basis on which councils calculate rates and issue rates notices to ratepayers.
We have considered all stakeholder feedback in making our assessment of maximum prices the Valuer General can charge councils for land valuation services from 1 July 2025.
All non-confidential submissions to our Draft Report can be found here.
Our decisions are to:
- establish a determination period of 4 years
- allocate 30.3% of the Valuer General’s efficient costs to councils
- set a revenue requirement that reflects the Valuer General’s efficient costs of $287.4 million
- adopt a single price of $7.93 per valuation for all councils rather than retaining the existing 4 distinct zone prices
- increase the price by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) each year
For more information, please see our Final Report or the Final Determination for the 2025 determination period.
A recording of our online public hearing that was held on 15 April can be found here.
Our Media Release is also available here.