Estate, Trust & Attorney Services

Specialized Appraisal Services for Attorneys, Executors, Trustees & Fiduciaries

Pinnacle Valuation Group provides appraisal services for estate settlement, trust administration, tax reporting, gifting, and litigation-related matters involving rural and agricultural real estate throughout Virginia. The firm specializes in farms, timberland, conservation easement properties, estate holdings, and other complex rural assets.

Common Estate & Trust Appraisal Assignments

Appraisal assignments commonly include:

  • Date-of-death valuations

  • Estate tax reporting (Form 706)

  • Trust administration

  • Gifting and inheritance planning

  • Family land division

  • Partition actions

  • Fiduciary decision-making

  • Retrospective valuations

Property Types

Types of Properties We Appraise

  • Farms and agricultural land

  • Timberland

  • Large-acreage tracts

  • Conservation easement properties

  • Historic easement properties

  • Rural estates

  • Recreational and hunting properties

  • Transitional land

Conservation Easement & Encumbered Properties

Many estate assignments involve properties affected by conservation easements, historic preservation easements, access restrictions, or other deed limitations. Pinnacle Valuation Group has extensive experience evaluating these complex property interests throughout Virginia.

Professional Background

Pinnacle Valuation Group is led by Michael Rally, a Virginia Certified General Real Estate Appraiser with experience spanning commercial appraisal, county assessment, and agricultural lending valuation. Professional experience includes commercial appraisal assignments throughout the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, land valuation and assessment work with Augusta County, and agricultural property appraisal with Colonial Farm Credit.

Prior to founding Pinnacle Valuation Group, Michael served as a Senior Real Estate Appraiser and Chief Appraiser with Colonial Farm Credit, where assignments included farms, timberland, rural residences, conservation easement properties, and other complex agricultural real estate throughout Central and Eastern Virginia. Today, the firm's practice focuses on rural land, agricultural properties, estate assignments, conservation easement properties, and complex acreage tracts throughout Virginia.

Contact

To discuss an estate, trust, probate, or retrospective valuation assignment, contact Pinnacle Valuation Group.