ABOUT TOWN & COUNTRY APPRAISALS

Town & Country Appraisals was started circa 1995 and is a Full Service Appraisal and Real Estate Consulting firm that is very active in both Residential Appraisals and Industrial, Commercial and Investment Appraisals (ICI).

Our team of Designated and Candidate Members of the Appraisal Institute of Canada has over 50 years of real estate experience and is led by Carl Blackwood, AACI, P.App. Carl was granted the AACI designation (Accredited Appraiser of the Canadian Institute) in 2005 and has over 20 years of appraisal experience having been employed with a number of well established full service and ICI appraisal firms in Southern Ontario and has gained extensive appraisal experience in different market areas and with different property types. Carl Blackwood is on the approved list of the major Banks and many other financial institutions including various Trust Companies and Credit Unions. Our reports are used for mortgage financing and insurance purposes, relocation, taxation and accounting purposes, matrimonial settlements, estate settlements, acquisition /disposal decisions, legal purposes and for loss mitigation. We conduct mostly current value estimate appraisals but also have experience in providing prospective and retrospective value estimates.

The Appraisal Institute of Canada (AIC) is the country`s premier appraisal organization and our membership or associate membership assures you that we have and continue to learn the training and skill set required to offer value opinions which you can have confidence in. As members of the AIC, our commitment is to keep up to date with current market trends and industry standards.

Most of our team are also members of the Canadian and Ontario Real Estate Associations (CREA and OREA) and some of us are members or are associate members of a number of real estate boards from where we get a large portion of our market information. We also have a wide network of real estate industry contacts where we gain valuable insight and information on different real estate issues which may be relevant to our tasks as appraisers and consultants.

Our home office is located in Hamilton but our team of appraisers cover a wide geographical area ranging from parts of the GTA, the Niagara Region, Oakville, Burlington, Brantford, Haldimand County, Hamilton and the Tri-Cities of Cambridge, Guelph and Kitchener-Waterloo along with all points in between. We have experience in both rural and urban properties and we strive to provide our clients with appraisal reports having market value estimates that are well supported with well researched market evidence with all of our appraisals conforming to the Canadian Uniform Standards of Professional Practice (CUSPAP) and the Code of Ethics as required by the Appraisal Institute of Canada. Our reports are also done in a timely fashion to allow our clients to make their business decisions sooner.