Australia’s largest group of independent property valuers have today made comment on the Federal Parliamentary Report released this week which explores Australia’s coastline.

The report, titled “Managing our coastal zone in a changing climate” raises some very serious future issues facing property owners, planning authorities and the property industry in general.

Opteon CEO, Greg Sugars said “The report has highlighted a range of emerging issues that have yet to be formally addressed by the property industry. We will be studying the report carefully and following the progress of recommendations contained within the report.”

“Opteon is holding its annual conference later this week and the report has already been circulated to our internal standards committee for comment and workshopping at their meeting”
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National property valuation group, Opteon, today announced a further extension of its services and geographic coverage in Western Australia and New South Wales.

Effective immediately established regional valuation businesses, Kimberley Property Services and Albany Valuations from WA and Langshaw Valuations in NSW will join and co-brand with the national group, which last year completed 670,000 valuations for banks, all levels of government and corporate Australia.
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Opteon Property Group has today issued a warning to lenders about an apparent increase in attempted fraudulent practices within the market place.

Opteon CEO, Greg Sugars said his warning followed hot on the heels of a similar warning by the Australian Property Institute in NSW.

“It is apparent that fraudsters are finding ways to manipulate outcomes in an increasingly tight credit market”, Mr Sugars explained
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National property group Opteon has responded to a drive from the property market to centralise valuation requests by extending its already large coverage across Australia.

Four new large independent valuation companies from NSW this week joined the national property services group that provides valuation and quantity surveying services.
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