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Personal property appraisals in New Mexico for donations, estate tax, divorce, and probate, prepared in accordance with USPAP and IRS requirements. AppraiseItNow appraises antiques, jewelry, collectibles, fine art, and household contents across New Mexico, including Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and Las Cruces.
DEFENSIBLE, USPAP-COMPLIANT PERSONAL PROPERTY APPRAISAL REPORTS — QUALIFIED FOR THE IRS, NEW MEXICO COURTS, LENDERS, INSURERS, AND MORE.
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Owner & CEO
Joe founded AppraiseItNow to make a certified, USPAP-compliant appraisal as simple to order as anything else online. A former Bain & Company strategy consultant, Joe leads the entire team and specializes in strategy, growth, and the firm's tech capabilities.
Personal Property Appraiser
ISA Accredited Member with 30 years in the trade, from running estate sales and an auction gallery to appraising luxury apparel, furniture, artwork, antiques, and business assets, primarily for IRS tax filings.
Machinery & Equipment Appraiser
Third-generation auctioneer and CAGA Certified Appraiser with more than 20 years valuing machinery, equipment, vehicles, business assets, and estates for banks, attorneys, and trustees across the Carolinas.
Personal Property Appraiser
ISA Accredited Member specializing in Asian art, with a Master's from SOAS and a Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art. Ashley chairs the ISA's Antiques, Furnishings, and Decorative Arts committee and appraises for charitable donation, insurance, and equitable distribution.
Client Success Manager
Manages each engagement from the first enquiry to the delivered report, and keeps you posted at every step along the way.
International Society of AppraisersAccredited Member
Certified Appraisers Guild of AmericaCertified Appraiser
The Appraisal FoundationAuthorized by Congress as the source of appraisal standardsAppraiseItNow appraises household contents, antiques, Southwestern and Native American pottery and jewelry, rugs and weavings, fine art, silver, coins, and collections in New Mexico for charitable donations, estate and probate inventories, divorce, and insurance scheduling and claims. A single household here can hold a Pueblo pot, a concho belt, a Chimayo weaving, and a mass produced sofa at the same time, and no two of those sell in the same room or to the same buyer.
Pottery and jewelry
Potters and silversmiths here are known by name, and the name often moves the figure further than the material does. We price against completed auction and gallery results for the maker, the pueblo, and the period, and we say which of those the conclusion rests on.
Weavings and textiles
Weave, dye, period, and condition decide where a blanket or a rug lands, and a worn example of a sought pattern can finish ahead of a crisp example of an ordinary one. Each piece is measured against sales of weavings of its own type.
Household contents
Furniture, china, rugs, lighting, and books: the volume is handled by category, and the pieces carrying real money are valued one at a time. Which pieces those are is agreed before anyone starts.
What the report is for decides which number it carries. We write to the use you name, fix the value to the day that use requires, and state the market the comparable sales were drawn from, so nothing in the conclusion has to be reconstructed later.
Probate and estates
A decedent's property is valued as of the date of death against the market as it stood then. Marks, weights, patterns, and condition go on the record for the pieces that matter, which is what keeps an inventory defensible years after it is filed.
Insurance claims and schedules
Scheduling valuables and settling a damage claim both turn on what it would take to replace the piece in today's market, including pieces with no exact modern equivalent. Older appraisals drift as metal and gem prices move, so we update existing ones as well as write new.
Wildfire and flood have made the insurance side of New Mexico personal property work the side with deadlines on it. Two rules decide how long a settlement may take and which property the state's replacement cost mandate actually reaches.
Catastrophe claims
90 days
to settle a declared catastrophic claim
Once a catastrophic loss has been declared and a catastrophic claim number assigned, an insurer has ninety days to settle each claim falling under it. Where the governor has declared an emergency instead, the event may be treated as a catastrophe at the superintendent's discretion, and the same ninety days run from that point. The clock stops only for a documented fraud investigation or while a claimant has yet to produce required documentation, which is why a contents valuation after a fire or a flood is a scheduling problem as much as a valuation one.
Policy language
Replacement cost
required for the dwelling, not for what is inside it
Residential property insurance in New Mexico has to be written on a replacement cost basis, and where an insured elects to carry out repairs themselves the settlement still has to provide for replacement cost. That rule is about the residence. The definitions attached to it state plainly that personal property contained within a residence is not part of the residence, so the furniture, the jewelry, the rugs, and the art fall outside the mandate and are governed by whatever the policy itself says. Reading the contents provision before the claim is valued decides which standard the appraisal is written to.
What New Mexico clients say we are known for
Across 23 published New Mexico appraisal reviews, every one from a client who paid AppraiseItNow for an appraisal, the three things they raise most often are that they would hire us again, how much research is visible in the report, and how quickly we answer.
AppraiseItNow Inc. is the best company I was lucky to find by accident. I was looking for someone to appraise cabinets for a donation to charity. I asked for multiple referrals, called multiple appraisal services, etc., and no one could help me. I found AppraiseItNow and from the moment I started working with them, they were wonderful! Joe guided me on what I needed to send him, what needed to be done and stayed in touch with me the entire time. Their customer service is OUTSTANDING and a welcome surprise in today’s world where good customer service is an anomaly! They returned an appraisal in a timely manner, it was clear, concise, cost-effective and exactly what I needed. They followed up with me multiple times to ensure that I received it and everything was OK. My CPA is also thrilled to have them as an accredited appraisal service he can use for other clients. I rarely leave reviews, but I could not pass giving them 5 stars and I’d give 10 if possible! THANK YOU JOE AND ALL AT APPRAISEITNOW!!👊🏼
Personal Property Appraisal for Charitable Donation
I used AppraiseItNow for the first time last month and I was extremely pleased with the results. I needed an appraisal done for insurance purposes and the level of detail about each of my antique furniture pieces was thorough and very helpful in my being able to get the highest amount possible from my insurance company for the antique items that were damaged. I could see that they spent time making sure that the information she included was correct and current for my antique furniture items in the current market. The team responded to my emails timely to answer any questions I had. I would highly recommend Appraise It Now to get a thorough and professional appraisal done on antique items. I do intend to use them again for other antique furniture and jewelry that I have. Job well done! 😃🤗
Antique Furniture Appraisal for Insurance Claim
It is a pleasure to work with Joe and his team. They communicate every step along the way and made the process simple for us to have more than 35 firearms appraised. It was all done in a timely manner and the final report is easy to understand. I highly recommend their services.
Gun Appraisal for Probate
I was skeptical at first, but the company exceeded all of my expectations. The team responded quickly to every question, and the service was excellent. They’re now my go to source for my collection. I’ve used them twice already, and I plan to use them several more times.
Firearms Appraisal for Personal Use
Joe made the process to have my piece of furniture appraised extremely easy, efficient and quick. My experience was great and I'd recommend AppraiseItNow to anyone looking for an appraisal.
Furniture Appraisal for Insurance Coverage
I asked AppraiseItNow to value a piece of sports memorabilia for purposes of a charitable donation. The item is rarely sold. Their research unearthed an important recent sale of a similar item, which I had not found previously, and which the first appraiser I used had not found either. AppraiseItNow was a good deal more expensive than the first service, but they crafted a detailed report in which I have much more confidence. They also helped me make sure the correct tax forms are used. Thank you!
Sports Memorabilia Appraisal for Charitable Donation
Given the USPAP-compliant nature of AppraiseItNow’s appraisal reports, we prepare our deliverables for major legal, tax, and financial reporting purposes for individual and commercial clients.
Popular uses of our appraisal reports include:
In realized auction and marketplace records from venues like Sotheby's, Christie's, Bonhams, and eBay completed listings. Realized prices, not asking prices, form the backbone of a credible sales comparison analysis, layered on top of a melt-value floor computed from weight, purity, and the current silver spot price.
Yes. New Mexico's inventory statute allows values based on the personal representative's good-faith estimate or other reasonable information, and the state has no probate referee system or mandatory appraisement form. For silver, antiques, and collections of real consequence, though, a documented appraisal with recorded hallmarks and weights protects the estate far better than an estimate.
No. New Mexico imposes no state estate or inheritance tax, so there is no state-level death tax on a silver collection passing to heirs. Valuation still matters for the probate inventory and, in large estates, for federal filings that use fair market value as of the date of death.
Yes, once the property is worth more than $300. Chapter 39, Article 5 of the New Mexico Statutes directs the sheriff to ascertain value and select appraisers for personal property sold under execution, requires those appraisers to be sworn, and requires a schedule of the property. For flatware services and hollowware, that schedule is only as good as the hallmark, weight, and pattern detail behind it.
Usually, but not always. Under Section 42-5A-6 NMSA, part of New Mexico's Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act, the court ordinarily determines fair market value by ordering an appraisal, yet it may forego one and decide value after an evidentiary hearing when the cost would outweigh its evidentiary value. Co-owners who want the silver valued properly are better off bringing a documented appraisal of their own.
