ABOUT INVAL PROPERTY VALUATIONS
Our Commitment to Accuracy
Nigel is the Managing Director and coupled with an experienced team of Roger, Sam and Tim are the driving strength of Inval.
They know their local markets intimately and each has decades of experience running their own businesses as well as working for large corporations.
Managing Director Nigel Gibbins and principal partners Roger Eberhard and Tim Wilkin collectively have more than 100 years’ experience in property valuations.
Our Team
Nigel Gibbins, AAPI
Nigel Gibbins is an experienced property valuer with over 20 years valuation experience with Associate Membership to the Australian Property Institute. Nigel studied at the University of South Australia and has worked as a valuer in South Australia (based at Barossa Valley, Adelaide, and Clare), Mildura Victoria (covering the region since 2003), Northern Territory (Darwin and Alice Springs), NSW (Government contracts Deniliquin and Wagga Wagga) and Queensland (Cairns) before establishing his own valuation business which has offices in Nuriootpa, Port Pirie, Mildura, Clare, Victor Harbor and Naracoorte.
During his career Nigel’s valuations assignments have included the following property classes;
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Agricultural (vineyards & wineries, table grapes, citrus, market gardens, piggeries, pastoral stations, and dry land farming operations)
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Commercial & Industrial
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Residential
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Country Hotels & Motels
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Commercial Car Washes
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Self-storage unit complexes
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Schools
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Government Assets for financial reporting
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Murray River fronting properties
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Prestige Ocean Front Residential Properties
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Rental Determinations
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Residential Englobo Sites
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Plant & Equipment
At Inval Property Valuations Nigel’s is positioned at the Barossa and Mildura offices and is focused on servicing the Barossa, Mildura/Sunraysia, Riverland and Clare Valley regions. As director Nigel oversees all the firms work for South Australia, Victoria and NSW south west region.
Personally, Nigel is an owner of a broad acre farm located in the Mallee with a mix of dry land cropping, sheep, and cattle; and Nigel also has past experience of vintage harvest work in the Barossa. This has provided continual exposure within the agriculture industry.
Sam Keane, AAPI
Sam Keane is an experienced property valuer with over 9 years’ valuation experience in both the private and public sectors. Sam has extensive regional knowledge having grown up in a real estate family in Port Pirie, and began working with Inval Property Valuations in 2021 as a Senior Valuer in our Port Pirie office. As a Certified Practising Valuer Sam undertakes residential, rural residential, commercial, and industrial property valuations predominately for mortgage security, mortgagee in possession, pre-purchase, pre-sale, and financial reporting.
Sam prides himself on strong local knowledge, with Sam’s areas of coverage including the Northern Regions (Port Pirie, Port August, Whyalla), Mid North, and Yorke Peninsula. During his career Sam’s valuation assignments have included the following property classes;
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Residential
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Rural Residential
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Ocean Front Properties
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Crown Land Shacks
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Industrial
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Commercial Office
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Retail
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Government Asset Portfolios
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Rental Determinations
At Inval Property Valuations Sam’s focus is on servicing the Northern Regions, with a particular focus on delivering quality commercial, industrial and residential valuations.
Roger Eberhard, AAPI
Son of a Mid North farmer, Roger completed his Degree in Agricultural Science at the University of Adelaide before beginning his career at the Commonwealth Development Bank in Naracoorte. A well-known figure in the South-East, he worked for local company Neil Ottoson Real Estate and gained his Diploma in Valuations at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology before starting his own practice, Eberhard Valuations in 1997. Roger later sold the business to local stock agency Thomas DeGaris & Clarkson, working for them until 2017.
An Associate Member of the Australian Property Institute with over 40 years’ experience, Roger’s valuation assignments have included the following property classes:
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Agricultural (vineyards and wineries, grazing, irrigation, dairy farms and dry land farming operations)
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Motels
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Caravan parks
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Prestige ocean-front residential properties
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Rental determinations
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Commercial and industrial
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Residential
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Residential subdivisions
Located in Naracoorte and considered a local authority on property valuation, not surprisingly, Roger’s focus in on servicing the needs and all property types in the Limestone Coast region.
Tim Wilkin, AAPI
Tim has extensive valuation, retail property development and leasing experience with organisations including Raine & Horne, Colliers International, Woolworths and Wesfarmers. Tim also held interests in his own wine business and a Hotel, keeping him connected to real time industry issues faced by today’s business owners within these sectors.
An Associate Member of the Australian Property Institute, Tim has over 20 years’ experience across South Australia, Northern Territory and Queensland. During that time, his valuation assignments included the following property classes:
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Agricultural (horticultural vineyards and wineries, mango and dry land farming)
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Rural residential
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Residential subdivisions
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Industrial developments
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Rental determinations
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Commercial office
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Retail developments
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Residential property
While Tim’s experience is extensive and his involvement in the business is a strength.