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Avella Collopy
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Avella Collopy

AAPI CPV MPINZ

Avella is the Regional Director for Opteon New Zealand’s Government Services business and is a Registered Valuer. Avella’s role includes the management of several contracts for Territorial Authorities (TA) across the North Island. Opteon’s primary role in this space is as the Valuation Service Provider (VSP) which provides rating valuations to TA’s to assist with their future planning schemes, forecasting, budgets and other community initiatives.

Some of Avella’s previous experience includes residential valuations in both Perth, Western Australia and Auckland, New Zealand. More recently, Avella has been involved in project management and governance, innovation projects, employee engagement projects, and procurement where she has successfully written and won government tenders.

Avella prides herself on providing accurate and timely advice together with excellent client services.

Contact Avella
09 929 2888
021 625 537
avella.collopy@opteonsolutions.com

Ashton Gibbard
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Ashton Gibbard

Areas of Expertise

  • Multi-unit residential investment property valuation
  • Valuations of development and block land
  • Valuation of specialist property under depreciated replacement cost methodology
  • Mass Appraisal Valuation techniques for revaluations
  • Financial Reporting and Asset Valuations and Reporting
  • Legislation, requirements and procedures for rating valuations
  • Procedural and reporting for Land Valuation Tribunal

Industry Experience

Ashton has been valuing since 2011 and has a wide knowledge base with experience across valuation sectors including rating valuations (roll maintenance and revaluations), financial reporting valuations, project managing national portfolio valuations, along with private market and insurance valuations.

Ashton has worked on rating contracts throughout the lower and central North Island and across the Northland Region.

Formal Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Business Studies (Valuation and Property Management)
  • Registered Valuer

Contact details

Ph: 027 700 1477

Danielle Nikora

Areas of Expertise

  • Valuations for rating purposes
  • Market Analysis

Industry Experience

Danielle has several years’ experience in the property industry, including property management, property sales, and business development. She is currently working towards a Bachelor of Business (Property) with the goal of becoming a Registered Valuer.

Formal Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Business Property (Ongoing) – Massey University
  • National Certificate in Real Estate – Salesperson – The Skills Organisation
  • Certificate IV in Property Services – Property Management – Kaplan Institute

Contact Details

M +64 21 439 307

Jeremy Tucker

Jeremy Tucker

Areas of Expertise

  • Residential: all types of residential categories for roll maintenance and revaluations
  • Commercial: Roll Maintenance
  • Lifestyle: Roll Maintenance and Revaluations

Industry Experience

Jeremy has over three years of experience as a valuer and has been employed by Opteon for this time. Jeremy has been involved in several district revaluations across the North Island, involving himself in the residential, commercial and lifestyle sectors. During his time, he has continued to upskill in roll maintenance for all the key clients. He is currently on his second year of being a part of the PINZ Branch Committee and is working towards his valuer’s registration.

Formal Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Property, The University of Auckland

Contact Details

M: 0278250152

Joe Holmes

Joe Holmes

Areas of Expertise

  • Valuations for property taxation, legislation and policy purposes
  • Mass valuation modelling
  • Rating and taxing valuations
  • Rating and Land Tax objections
  • Asset valuations for financial reporting purposes
  • Public open space contribution valuations

Industry Experience

Joe is an experienced rating and taxing valuer having commenced his career in Melbourne undertaking a range of valuations for municipalities including Manningham City Council, Kingston City Council, Glen Eira City Council, Frankston City Council, Yarra City Council, Moreland City
Council, Mornington Shire and more. He has vast experience returning annual general revaluations, objections, supplementary valuations, public open space contribution valuations, asset valuations, rental determinations and insurance valuations covering a range of property types such as commercial, industrial, residential, and specialist. In 2020 he migrated home to Auckland (New Zealand) and in 2021 joined Opteon as an Associate Director in their Government and Advisory team. He is a Registered Valuer in New Zealand, Certified Practising Valuer in Victoria, and holds a Land Valuers License in Western Australia.

Formal Qualifications

  • Certified Practising Valuer
  • Associate Member of the Australian Property Institute
    (API Member No. 82770)
  • Registered Valuer (NZIV, MPINZ) (Registration
    Certificate No. 3942)
  • Land Valuers Licence (Western Australia) (Licence No.
    LV45100)
  • Bachelor of Applied Science (Property and Valuation)
    (1st Class Honours)

Contact Joe:

  • Mobile: +64 21 229 7601
  • Email: joe.holmes@opteonsolutions.com
Property Valuer New Zealand - Mark Grinlinton

Mark Grinlinton

ANZIV, SPINZ

Mark has been responsible for the delivery of over 30 revaluations since 1999 and held leading valuation positions with Valuation NZ, QV, Landmass and Opteon.  He began his valuation career in 1984 in the Gisborne office of Valuation NZ. In 1989 he moved to Tauranga and held the position of Rating Valuation Manager for Quotable Value from 1999 to 2004. From 2004 to 2015 he was a director and shareholder of Landmass Technology, until its purchase by Opteon where he held the positions of General Manager Government Services and Rural Director until early 2019.  Following a brief absence, he has returned to add his significant experience and assist Opteon in his role as Registered Property Valuer.

Mark has been a Registered Valuer specialising in the delivery of rating valuations for most of his 36-year career.  This experience has led to a strong understanding and long involvement in the Rating Valuation industry.

Contact Mark
027 663 8030
+64 7 5718593
mark.grinlinton@opteonsolutions.com

Martyn Oostveen

MPINZ

Martyn is an experienced rating valuer and has been with Opteon for almost 5 years, during this time has participated and managed several revaluations. His experience extends to dairy, pastoral, lifestyle and residential valuations. Martyn prides himself in his knowledge in rating valuation legislation and the quality assurance of valuations and data.  Martyn is working towards becoming a registered valuer in late 2020/2021.

Before valuation career, Martyn worked on a dairy farm employed as a manager.

Contact Martyn
027 810 9375
martyn.oostveen@opteonsolutions.com

Mate Finlay

Mate Finlay

Areas of Expertise

  • Preparing valuations for rating purposes (Including in both the Auckland and Hamilton market)

Industry Experience

Mate graduated from University of Auckland in March 2020, where he completed a Bachelor of Property. On completion of his degree, Mate joined the Auckland Council as a Graduate Valuer where he conducted Rating Valuations across the Auckland property market.

Mate joined Opteon in October 2020 where he has since moved his existing experience to conducting Rating Valuations in Hamilton’s property market.

Mate has undertaken variations of valuations including building consents, subdivisions, amalgamations of titles and owner objections.

Formal Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Property (University of Auckland) 2016 – 2019

Contact details

M +64 21 438 032

Michael Baxter

Michael Baxter

Areas of Expertise

  • Urban valuation

Industry Experience

Michael has over five years’ experience as an urban valuer with Opteon Solutions (formerly Landmass Technology).

Contact details

M 021 246 0889
T 07 571 8593

Shelley Manson

Shelley Manson

Areas of Expertise

  • Valuations for ratings purposes
  • Valuations for Mortgage purposes
  • Client relations
  • Rural and hospitality sectors

Industry Experience

Shelley joined Opteon NZ in early 2021 after returning to New Zealand with her family. She is undertaking residential and rural rating valuations within Western Bay of Plenty, Tauranga City, South Waikato, Rotorua and Taupo District Councils.

Hailing from rural Bay of Plenty and having gained early valuation experience with a provincial firm in Rotorua, Shelley looks to combine her subsequent experience in administration, finance and customer service roles to develop her career and work towards registration.

Formal Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Business Studies (Valuation and Property Management)
  • Massey University, Manawatu, New Zealand, 1995
  • Member of the Property Institute of New Zealand and Friend of the Property Foundation Massey University

Contact details

M +64 21 407 693
P 07 571 8593