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Artwork appraisals in North Carolina for donations, estate tax, insurance, and divorce, prepared in accordance with USPAP and IRS requirements. AppraiseItNow appraises paintings, sculptures, prints, photography, and mixed media across North Carolina, including Charlotte, Raleigh, and Asheville.
DEFENSIBLE, USPAP-COMPLIANT ARTWORK APPRAISAL REPORTS — QUALIFIED FOR THE IRS, NORTH CAROLINA 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.
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.
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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
The Appraisal FoundationAuthorized by Congress as the source of appraisal standardsAppraiseItNow appraises oil paintings, watercolors, prints and editions, photography, sculpture and decorative art in North Carolina for charitable contributions, estate administration, coverage schedules and equitable distribution. Attribution is the first question on almost every file and the last one to be settled, and it is answered out of the record rather than off the frame.
Attribution
The distance between a work by an artist, a work after that artist and a later reproduction of the same image is usually the whole value. The report says which of those the evidence supports, and what would have to turn up to move it.
Charitable gifts
A deduction rests on the market where a work would genuinely change hands, which for most prints and reproductions is not the retail level a gallery would charge to replace it. Every sale behind the figure is identified.
Estates
Work in an estate is valued to a fixed date, and only the results that closed near it carry any weight. Where an artist has nothing close, the file records how far the net was thrown and why, rather than borrowing a comparable that does not belong to the work.
Coverage and division
A schedule written for coverage asks what a comparable piece would cost at retail today. A settlement or a return asks what this one would bring if it were sold. Carrying a figure from one of those uses into the other is how it gets challenged.
Two North Carolina assignments, one headline apiece. Owner names and figures stay in the working file, and nothing here identifies a client or a collection.
Estate distribution
A small group of vintage documentary photographs valued so an estate could be divided, with attribution and edition doing most of the work.
Charitable donation
A mixed group of prints and paintings given to local nonprofits, valued for the donor against results for the same artists, editions and media.
Three North Carolina rules decide what has to be on the record behind a work of art: what a print sale must disclose, who owns a piece sitting in a dealer back room, and what happens when a loan is forgotten.
Prints
$100
is where North Carolina's written disclosure on a print sale begins
An art dealer selling a print for more than one hundred dollars, exclusive of the frame, must disclose in writing the artist, the year the plate or negative was made, the year the print was made, the process used for each, and whether the print belongs to a limited edition. For a limited edition the disclosure runs further: the authorized maximum numbers of signed and unsigned impressions, the proofs outside the regular edition, whether the plate or negative was destroyed, altered or cancelled afterwards, whether there were earlier or later editions from it, and whether the edition is posthumous or a restrike. Those disclosures become express warranties, which is why they are worth collecting long before a value is argued.
Consignment
Bailment property
is what a work left with a North Carolina dealer stays until it sells
Where a North Carolina art dealer takes a work of fine art on consignment from the artist on a fee or other compensation basis, the dealer is the artist’s bailee, and the work is bailment property in which the dealer holds no legal or equitable interest until it is sold to a bona fide third party. The proceeds are bailment property on the same terms until the artist has been paid. Creditors of the dealer cannot reach any of it, and a later purchase by the dealer for its own account does not change that until the price, less the agreed charge, has been paid in full.
Museum loans
Seven years
of silence can move title in a work lent to a North Carolina museum
A North Carolina museum or archives repository may acquire title to documented property on loan where the term of the loan has expired and seven years have passed without contact from the lender, or where the loan carries no expiry and seven years have passed since it was made. Notice goes first by certified mail to the last known address. If no valid claim arrives within thirty days and the property is estimated above $10,000, the institution must make a reasonable effort to find the owner or the heirs and publish notice for no less than 365 consecutive days. An estimate of value therefore decides which path the notice takes.
What clients say we are known for
Across 80+ published AppraiseItNow reviews the picture is consistent: every one is from a client who paid us for an appraisal, and the three things they raise most often are that they would hire us again, how quickly we answer, and how much research is visible in the report.
The appraisal was done very well. Since he was a local artist here in Charleston, SC, they took the time to study and review Jim Booth’s art. His work has made him extremely famous, which can make an appraisal challenging, but they did a superb job and clearly explained how they arrived at the appraisal value. I highly recommend Appraise It Now and will use them again for all my artwork.
Artwork Appraisal for Insurance Coverage
AppraiseItNow did an excellent job appraising our unique art collection. Joe was always prompt and responsive, and he and his team delivered a thorough, well-supported appraisal in just a couple of weeks, even during the holiday season. I was genuinely impressed. Thank you for the great work!
Artwork Appraisal for Insurance Coverage
AppraiseItNow was amazing! My father passed with a large volume of artwork & I had no idea what it was worth. Their team was incredibly helpful and quick to respond with text and/or email to any questions as well as a status update along the way. Highly recommend!
Artwork Appraisal for Probate
I recently requested a retroactive appraisal for fine art from AppraiseItNow. I received excellent service from intake to delivery. The appraisal was delivered on time and the content of the appraisal absolutely met my expectations!
Artwork Appraisal
From the start they were very responsive, price competitive, and had a quick turn around time. Thank you so much to Joe who was very sweet in responding to my emails; I am looking forward to utilizing AppraiseItNow for many years to come.
Very thorough and professional — great communication and outstanding service. Highly impressed with their work!
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:
Recent arm's-length sales of comparable works. We assemble realized auction and private sale results, adjust for artist, condition, size, and provenance, and reconcile them into a fair market value conclusion, with the method and specific comparables disclosed in the report as IRS-related assignments require.
No. North Carolina's estate tax was repealed for decedents dying on or after January 1, 2013, and the state has no inheritance tax. Estate administration still requires probate inventory values as of the date of death, so significant artwork should carry documented support even without a state tax bill.
Provenance records, condition reports, exhibition and publication history, prior invoices, and auction catalog entries. These materially influence the value conclusion, and a credible report describes the object thoroughly, attribution, medium, dimensions, marks, and restoration, so that another appraiser could follow the reasoning from evidence to number.
Generally no. Art kept for personal enjoyment falls under the non-business property exclusion in G.S. 105-275(16), the same category as household furnishings, and never appears on the county listing. The analysis flips when art is used in a business: gallery inventory, decorator stock, and corporate office pieces become taxable business personal property that must be listed each January.
No. Chapter 93E, the North Carolina Appraisers Act, regulates only real estate appraisers, and its licensing requirement does not extend to personal property such as paintings, jewelry, or collectibles. Courts, insurers, and the IRS instead look to voluntary designations from bodies like ISA, ASA, and AAA and to methodology that follows recognized appraisal standards.
