Antique and collectable appraisal app
An appraisal of furniture, silver, ceramics or a collection is object-by-object: what it is, who made it, when, from what, what marks it carries, its condition, and what comparable objects have recently sold for. The same object can carry different values depending on purpose — insurance replacement is not what it would make at auction — so the appraisal has to state the basis before the figure.
Built for auction houses running teams of roughly 3–50 inspectors.
Sample Appraisal report
An illustrative excerpt. The site, readings and findings are fictional; the layout is yours to set.
Appraisal report
Lot schedule — Dining room
- Client
- Private collection (fictional)
- Purpose
- Insurance — retail replacement value
- Inspected
- 27 January 2026
| Object | Description and marks | Value basis |
|---|---|---|
| Extension dining table | Australian red cedar, c.1860, two leaves; later castors | Value basis: Replacement |
| Silver tea service, 4 pieces | Hallmarked Sheffield 1902; maker’s mark worn on jug | Value basis: Replacement |
| Pair of vases | Porcelain, unmarked; one with a restored rim | Value basis: Condition noted |
| Oil painting, harbour scene | Signature not legible; refer to a specialist | Value basis: Not valued |
Fields captured on site
Your firm builds the form in-app, so these are a starting point rather than a fixed schema. Every field is captured on the device, with or without signal, and lands in the appraisal report where your template puts it.
Per object
- Room or lot number
- Object type and description
- Maker, period and materials
- Marks, labels and inscriptions
- Condition and restorations
- Photographs, including marks
Value
- Basis (insurance replacement, market, auction estimate)
- Value adopted
- Comparable sales relied on
Engagement
- Purpose and intended user
- Objects excluded and referred elsewhere
Standards the report works to
- IVSInternational Valuation Standards — bases of value
- The distinction between a replacement value for insurance and market value that the appraisal states up front.
Load the standards you hold into your reference library and the drafted prose is written against them rather than against a general model.
How the appraisal report gets built
Capture it once, offline
Your firm builds the antique and collectable appraisal form in-app — 25 field types, nesting repeatable groups, compound AND/OR visibility rules, reusable modules and calculated fields. Field capture works with no signal: jobs, forms, photos, notes and audio all queue in an idempotent outbox that only clears once the server confirms receipt.
Link it to your the subject property and its improvements
Enter the subject property and its improvements once, as a register. Every one of your comparable sales and adjustment lines then points at a stored row rather than a name somebody typed — and the links survive a disconnected device.
Render your own template
The appraisal report renders into the Word template you already use — your letterhead, your section order, your clause library — with conditionals, loops over repeats, composable sub-templates and photo grids.
Reviewed before it leaves
You write the review framework: a checklist of what a appraisal report must contain, plus the prose standards you would mark a junior against. Link it to a report template and it runs every time that template renders. Each finding comes back graded info, minor or major, quoting the sentence at fault, and a person accepts or dismisses every one.
Because the structured submission behind the report is held too, the review is a comparison rather than a proofread: The report describes a four-bedroom dwelling; the inspection form recorded three.
Checks a valuation framework usually carries
- Every section the panel instruction requires appears, in the required order
- Each adjustment traces to a comparable that is listed in the evidence
- The reconciliation supports the figure actually adopted
- Instruction basis, assumptions and disclaimers are stated in full
Questions
- Can each object have photographs of its marks as well as the whole piece?
- Yes. An object is a repeatable group with as many photo fields as you set up, and the template places them beside the description.
- Can one visit produce both an insurance and a market value?
- Each object row can carry a value per basis, and separate templates can render an insurance schedule and a market appraisal from the same capture.
- Can objects be grouped by room in the report?
- Rooms can be a repeat with objects nested inside them, so the schedule is laid out room by room with subtotals calculated per room.
What this is not
Worth knowing before you book a demo, so neither of us wastes the half hour.
- Not field-service dispatch. No timesheets, no parts, no inventory. Scheduling exists to get an inspector to a site.
- No signature capture. If your deliverable has to carry a signed sign-off on the artefact itself, this is not the tool yet.
- Field capture is what works offline — jobs, forms, photos, notes and audio. Reports, chat, scheduling and the inbox need a connection.
- No client portal. Reports go out as a file or a password-protected link.
Other valuation work we cover
- Stamp duty valuationsDuty valuation report
- Tax depreciation inspectionsDepreciation schedule
- Business asset valuationsAsset valuation report
- Commercial property valuationsCommercial valuation report
- Construction cost to completeCost to complete report
- Plant and equipment valuationsP&E valuation report
- Quantity surveying progress claimsProgress claim report
- Residential property valuationsValuation report
Other disciplines
Rebuild your appraisal report in SurveyThanks
Bring the Word template you already send clients. If you are coming off another field-forms tool, a filled report can be uploaded, read field by field, and re-rendered into your template.