Christchurch Rural Property Valuation

Greg is an experienced registered valuer and leads our Canterbury rural valuation and property consultancy team in Christchurch.

Greg specialises in the valuation of rural property throughout Canterbury and the South Island. His work for the firm has included financial reporting valuations of large scale rural portfolio’s, compensation assessments for major infrastructure projects and one off individual farm valuations for lending, estate and development purposes.

Greg offers our clients excellent technical skills and he has a highly developed understanding of the public sector and relevant legislation. He plays a lead role in our corporate dairy farm valuation work, high country, infrastructure compensation and in other valuation practice areas.

John has been actively involved in the property industry as a valuer for more than 40 years. Most recently he has held senior valuation positions with Darroch and DTZ.

John’s experience covers a wide variety of property types in both the public and private sectors. His specialised asset valuation assignments have encompassed airports, tertiary institutions, energy generation infrastructure, crown research campuses, hotels, hospitals, rest homes, retail malls, wineries, meat processing plants, court and prison buildings, ski-fields and major stadia. His agri-sector experience is wide ranging and includes large-scale corporate farming operations, crown research farms, large-scale vineyard operations, forestry land, pastoral leases and high country stations. John’s assignments have been completed for a variety of purposes including; financial reporting, insurance, going concern valuation, market value, portfolio asset values, retrospective value, methodology development, arbitration, litigation support, expert witness and Treaty of Waitangi settlement.

John is regarded as a leading valuation practitioner in New Zealand by business leaders and his peers. He has been a member of the New Zealand Institute of Valuers (now PINZ) for over 30 years and was a Harcourt prize recipient in 2004. He has served the profession as National President (1997/98), Chairman of the Valuation and Property Standards Board (1996-2009), New Zealand representative on the International Valuation Standards Committee (10 years) and Chairman of the International Valuation Standards Board (7 years).

John  operates nationally and plays a leading role within a number of our specialist valuation practice areas including infrastructure, viticulture, dairy, pastoral and forestry.

Ed has over 20 years’ experience in property valuation and agribusiness throughout New Zealand. He is based in Christchurch and travels regularly to the regions. Prior to joining the Colliers International Rural and Agribusiness valuation team he was a senior valuer and business manager of a valuation firm in Central Otago which covered the lower South Island and spent four years as a farm manager on a sheep and beef farm in the Wakatipu Basin. Ed has also practiced as a valuer in Nelson/Tasman, Wellington and the Wairarapa.

Ed has agricultural and forestry interests in the lower North Island, completed the Kellogs Rural Leadership Programme in 2010 and obtained a Master of Property Studies degree in 2015. He has broad property related experience in both urban and rural sectors focusing more recently on specialized rural and commercial assets and the impact of nutrient regulation on land values.

Having spent a good portion of his career in agribusiness and partnering with rural businesses around New Zealand, Ed understands the challenges of the rural sector in changing current economic and political climates, and appreciates our clients need for quality specialist property advice.

Praveen has over 20 years property valuation experience and is based in our Christchurch office. Between 1995 and 2004 he worked as a valuer for Quotable Value based in both Nelson and Christchurch – during that time he held the role of National Project Manager Asset Valuation.

Since 2004, his work for the firm has encompassed a wide variety of assignments including; injurious affection valuations arising from road transportation and electricity supply works, scenario option modeling, specialised asset valuations including airports, ports and tertiary institutions, valuations for insurance and statutory reporting purposes and valuation project management.

Praveen’s infrastructure experience includes; valuation of land and buildings for insurance and financial disclosure purposes for both Christchurch International Airport and Port Eastland, land acquisition and compensation valuations for the Christchurch City Council Northern Arterial, compensation assessments for special amenity value and enterprise value for Crown agencies taking property under the Public Works Act 1981 and compensation for easement property interests acquired by Transpower.

Praveen also undertakes large-scale land subdivision DCF valuations for our corporate land development clients.

Praveen offers our clients excellent technical skills, a sound understanding of the public sector and relevant infrastructure legislation and he plays a key role in the firm’s infrastructure team and our technical peer review process. Praveen is based in our Christchurch office and undertakes work nationally.

Prior to joining Colliers, Tim had 25 years agribusiness banking experience in the North and South Island in relationship management, business development and senior leadership roles.

He completed and peer reviewed rural valuations throughout his banking career.  His banking skills include agribusiness finance, credit analysis and rural valuation.

With his wife he owns an irrigated, intensive stock and cropping property in North Canterbury.

The family property was leased prior to farming meaning Tim understands the lease market, has experience dealing with lessor and lessees and negotiating lease agreements.

Tim brings to the Colliers Rural Valuation and Advisory team agribusiness banking and practical farming experience, an understanding of irrigation and environmental compliance as well as a strong network of farmers and their advisors.

His focuses are all types of rural land valuation throughout the South Island and advisory work in the rural sector.
 

Kate is a born and breed Southlander. Growing up on a sheep and beef farm in Central Southland gave her an invaluable appreciation and understanding of the area and primary sector.

Kate graduated from Lincoln University in 2015 with a B. Com. Ag majoring in Agricultural Management and Rural Valuation. In her final year at Lincoln she received the Colliers Rural and Agribusiness Valuation Scholarship and consequently joined the company in 2016.

Kate worked out of the Christchurch office for four years, focusing predominantly on valuing properties in the Southland and Otago regions, gaining experience in dairy, sheep and beef, high country, horticulture and viticulture industries. She was also involved in developing datasets, overview analysis and trend commentaries for the Southland and Otago rural property markets for clients and communication reports.

In May 2019 Kate gained her registration and started building her own portfolio of clients in the Lower South Island.

In January 2020 Kate moved to Southland to open the first Colliers Rural Valuation office in the region.

Jack has a strong rural background growing up in North Canterbury where he developed a range of skills which have aided him in his valuation career. 

Jack started working for the company in 2015 after graduating from Lincoln University, where he worked alongside our senior valuers gaining valuable experience. During this period Jack was involved in undertaking corporate dairy farm portfolio valuations for financial reporting, planning and potential acquisition purposes throughout Canterbury and the Waikato, as well as assisting in high country station tenure reviews.

In 2018 Jack completed his registration before taking time off to follow a professional rugby career in Russia. After returning in late 2019, Jack returned to the Rural Valuation profession. 

At the start of 2021 Jack relocated to our Blenheim office where he is now working alongside Tim Gifford. Since moving to Blenheim, Jack has been involved in a number of large scale 
vineyard valuations for finance and rental purposes as well as continuing to work within the dairy and pastoral sectors. 

In addition to Jack’s valuation work he is also a high-power user of all sorts of applications helping to create efficiencies within the Company by developing our modelling and database tools.

Nicola joined Crighton Anderson Property and Infrastructure (now trading as Colliers International) as a graduate valuer in early 2019.  Nicola has been working as part of our largest team based in Canterbury, working collaboratively in a variety of valuation fields. Her focus is predominantly on rural property in the Canterbury region and includes a mix of large corporate dairy portfolio work through to smaller pastoral landholdings and horticulture. 

Prior to joining the firm, Nicola worked for one of Australia's largest valuation firms gaining valuable experience in a diverse range of property types from retail shopping centres to  global government property portfolios.

Coming from a rural background, Nicola has always had a passion for property and the rural sector and is now working towards becoming a fully registered valuer.

Georgia has recently completed her bachelor’s degree in Land and Property Management where she specialised in Rural Valuation and Agricultural Management at Lincoln University. Georgia joined the Christchurch Colliers team upon graduation in January 2020.

Having grown up in Marlborough, she completed work in our Blenheim office during her studies, assisting with the valuation of vineyards and sheep and beef systems. Georgia received two Education NZ Prime Ministers scholarships to China and Brazil in 2018 and 2019 where she developed a deeper understanding of agribusiness concepts and farming systems within New Zealand's largest export markets. Along with this, she studied at Chonnam National University in South Korea where she developed key skills in international trade and marketing.

Georgia is currently working alongside Tim Banks to deliver market valuations in sheep and beef and dairy systems for financial reporting and mortgage purposes. Having a passion for property and the agricultural sector, Georgia is working towards becoming a fully registered rural valuer with Colliers International.

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