Coast Appraisals

Bell Real Estate Consultants prepares replacement-cost insurance appraisals for residential and commercial real estate. Its current company website describes replacement-cost-new analysis, while its VISOA member profile identifies strata condominiums, townhomes, small duplex-to-fourplex stratas and cooperative housing among the property types served. Keith Bell is listed as owner and consultant, with a Victoria-area contact and published coverage across Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands and the Lower Mainland. The association profile offers a no-obligation quote and claims errors-and-omissions insurance; those are not independent qualification checks. Coast Strata's company history says it acquired Bell's depreciation-report portfolio; Bell's current service is insurance appraisals.

D.R. Coell & Associates prepares depreciation reports and insurance replacement-cost appraisals from its Victoria office. Depreciation reports include common-component inventories, condition and useful-life estimates, repair costs and long-term funding scenarios. Insurance work includes inspection, demolition and debris-removal costs, and reconstruction considerations; it is separate from the firm's market-value practice. The company states BC and Alberta coverage for these reports and traces its business history to 1974. Its public office phone and quote form are used for inquiries.