Newsletterwww.valuergeneral.nsw.gov.auJULY 2015 | ISSN: 2203-0719

Your land value and council rates

We supply new land values to councils every three to four years to calculate rates.

Councils use land values to calculate rates in one of three ways:

› a combination of the land value of the property and a fixed amount per property

› entirely on the land value of the property

› entirely on the land value but subject to a minimum amount.

A change in your land value does not necessarily lead to a similar change in rates.

Each council has a revenue policy that sets the rates and charges it needs to fund the services it provides to the community.

The Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART) sets limits to the total amount of revenue a council can raise.

If you would like to find out more about how your rates are calculated you should contact your council.

Find your land value› On your Notice of Valuation

› Visit www.valuergeneral.nsw.gov.au to:

• use our land value search facility

• access land values across NSW through the NSW Globe

› Call us on 1800 110 038.

We are committed to providing an open and transparent valuation system.

We have introduced plain English policies that explain how we value land.

Our policies include:

› Valuation of single residential land

› Valuation of high density residential land

› Valuation of commercial land

› Valuation of industrial land

› Valuation of rural land

› Valuation of heritage restricted land.

To get all our policies visit www.valuergeneral.nsw.gov.au or call us on 1800 110 038.

Want to know more about how we value land?

Our ServiceOur knowledgeable staff are here to help.

If you have any questions about your land value or the valuation system you can contact us.

If your questions require a valuer’s expertise, we will be able to assist you. Our valuers are located throughout NSW.

Contact usWe are here to help.

1800 110 038 8.30am - 5.00pm Mon - Fri

Valuation Services Land and Property Information PO Box 745 BATHURST NSW 2795

valuationenquiry@lpi.nsw.gov.au

Valuer General

FREE AND EASY ACCESS TO PROPERTY AND MAPPING INFORMATION

The NSW Globe allows you to explore mapping and property information

within Google Earth™

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Any enquiries relating to this newsletter may be addressed to the Office of the Valuer General at feedback@ovg.nsw.gov.au

Author: Office of the Valuer General

NSWGlobeFind land values across NSWThe Valuer General and Land and Property Information have recently added land values to the NSW Globe.

You can explore land values throughout New South Wales.

Search for a property using the address or property number found on your Notice of Valuation to find:

› land values (for up to the past five years)

› valuation basis

› zone

› area

› valuing year used for council rates

› hyperlinks to other valuation information.

To get started

Visit:

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For help:

› watch the online tutorials

› read the user guide on the Valuer General’s website

›call us on 1800 110 038.

* You will need to have Google EarthTM installed

© June 2015 LPI (B) P15/18/020

Valuer General

Explore the NSW GlobeAs well as land values you can find:

› aerial imagery

› information about a parcel of land such as boundaries, lot and plan numbers

› suburb, local government area and electorate boundaries

› historical imagery of Sydney from 1943

› Australian Bureau of Statistics data

›transport routes and other points of interest.