Our Appraisers

Founder, Appraiser and National Team Leader

Alicia founded Prestige Estate Services in 2010 to bring greater professionalism, transparency, and consistency to personal property appraisal services. She now directs appraisal operations, quality expectations, professional development, and complex-assignment coordination for a nationwide team.

For approximately 15 years, her work has concentrated on high-net-worth and private-client matters. She regularly coordinates with estate attorneys, trust companies, wealth managers, insurance professionals, certified public accountants, fiduciaries, family offices, collectors, and private clients.

Her leadership and appraisal experience support assignments involving large residences, substantial mixed collections, complex intended uses, multiple stakeholders, sensitive family circumstances, and property requiring disciplined inventory, research, specialist coordination, or review.

Project-Based Coverage Without a Regional Limitation

Alicia is not presented as a locally or regionally limited appraiser. As founder and Head of Appraisals, she travels frequently throughout the United States and abroad when a project requires her leadership, private-client experience, generalist knowledge, or ability to coordinate a complex multi-category assignment.

Her travel assignments may involve large estates, residences exceeding 20,000 square feet, important collections, sensitive insurance matters, tax-related appraisal needs, appraisal review, expert consultation, family-office coordination, or property distributed across more than one residence or jurisdiction.

Availability is determined by the intended use, effective date, property categories, location, timing, inspection requirements, reporting obligations, specialist needs, confidentiality considerations, and overall scope. Prestige Estate Services selects the appropriate appraiser or project team after reviewing those factors.

Personal Property Appraiser

A personal property appraiser values movable tangible assets such as fine art, antiques, furniture, decorative objects, jewelry, collections, household contents, machinery, equipment, vehicles, and other property that is not real estate. The analysis must match the property and the decision the appraisal is intended to support.

Alicia’s generalist experience helps her identify meaningful assets, organize mixed collections, recognize when a specialist is needed, and coordinate the appropriate research and reporting resources.

Personal Property Appraisals

Personal property appraisals provide organized, supportable valuation information for estate administration, tax reporting, charitable giving, insurance, equitable distribution, litigation, collection management, collateral, planning, sale decisions, or other defined uses.

The finished report may include descriptions, photographs, condition observations, research sources, market analysis, assumptions, value conclusions, and explanations of the methodology appropriate to the engagement.

USPAP-Compliant Appraisals

The Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice establish ethical and performance requirements for professional appraisal work. Applicable assignments identify the appraisal problem, scope of work, intended use, intended users, effective date, assumptions, research, analysis, and reporting necessary to produce credible results.

Alicia and the Prestige Estate Services appraisal team follow applicable USPAP requirements. Additional standards information is available through The Appraisal Foundation.

Complex Estates and Mixed Personal Property

Large estates frequently combine household contents, fine art, antiques, jewelry, silver, furnishings, vehicles, collections, business property, and objects requiring different research resources or specialty knowledge. Alicia coordinates the inventory, assignment strategy, specialist participation, quality control, and unified reporting necessary to address the estate as a whole.

Her experience working with estate attorneys, fiduciaries, tax professionals, trust companies, wealth managers, and family representatives helps align the appraisal process with the effective date, filing context, administration needs, deadlines, and professional expectations surrounding the assignment.

IRS-Qualified Appraisals

Certain federal tax assignments require a qualified appraisal prepared and signed by a qualified appraiser whose education and experience correspond to the property. Alicia is an IRS-qualified personal property appraiser, and Prestige Estate Services reviews the intended use, property categories, reporting requirements, and signing-appraiser qualifications before work begins.

Learn more about qualified IRS estate tax appraisals.

Estate Tax Appraisals

Estate tax appraisals establish fair market value for tangible personal property as of the required date of death or other authorized effective date. The work may support federal estate-tax reporting, fiduciary administration, legal review, allocation, and decisions involving the estate’s personal property.

Alicia’s experience with high-value and large-scale estates supports organized reporting across multiple property categories. Review estate tax appraisal services.

Probate Appraisals

Probate appraisals document estate-owned personal property for court-supervised administration, settlement, distribution, or related fiduciary needs. A neutral, organized inventory helps executors, personal representatives, beneficiaries, counsel, and the court work from a common record.

Prestige Estate Services also provides estate inventory and valuation appraisals.

Different Purposes Require Different Appraisal Questions

Insurance, charitable donation, and equitable-distribution assignments may involve the same object but require different effective dates, value definitions, markets, assumptions, documentation, and reporting. Alicia defines those requirements before selecting research and developing conclusions.

This assignment-specific approach is particularly important when multiple advisors, family members, insurers, attorneys, tax professionals, fiduciaries, or other intended users will rely on the appraisal.

Insurance Appraisals

Insurance appraisals may support coverage planning, scheduling, risk management, damage analysis, loss documentation, theft claims, or other defined insurance purposes. Strong documentation considers identification, quality, materials, condition, sourcing, policy context, relevant markets, and the value definition required by the assignment.

Learn more about insurance appraisals.

Charitable Donation Appraisals

Charitable donation appraisals establish fair market value for qualifying non-cash contributions. The appraisal must identify the property, effective date, relevant market, condition, comparable evidence, methodology, appraiser qualifications, and assignment-specific reporting requirements without creating an interest in the deduction outcome.

Review charitable donation appraisal services.

Divorce Appraisals

Divorce appraisals provide independent opinions of value for personal property considered during negotiation, mediation, litigation, settlement, or equitable distribution. Consistent identification, categorization, research, and valuation logic help attorneys, mediators, courts, and the parties work from a neutral record.

Read about equitable distribution appraisals.

Art Appraisals

Fine and decorative art appraisals may consider artist or maker information, medium, dimensions, subject, date, quality, condition, provenance, exhibition or publication history, authenticity evidence, comparable sales, and the appropriate market level.

Important works may require additional authentication, conservation, catalogue raisonné, specialty-market, or scholarly resources before a value conclusion is developed.

Antiques Appraisals

Antiques appraisals require analysis of age, maker or origin, construction, materials, craftsmanship, quality, originality, repairs, restoration, condition, provenance, scarcity, market demand, and the sales venue relevant to the intended use.

Alicia’s knowledge includes antique furniture, decorative arts, and general personal property. Additional information is available through antique appraisal services and antique valuations.

Household Contents Appraisals

Household contents appraisals document and value the tangible personal property within a residence. Assignments may include furniture, decorative objects, art, antiques, silver, china, glass, rugs, books, clothing, electronics, appliances, collectibles, vehicles, tools, and other property.

A practical inventory system is especially important when a large residence or multiple properties contain thousands of objects across different categories and levels of value.

Personal Property Inventories

A personal property inventory provides a structured record of assets and may form the foundation for valuation, administration, insurance, planning, division, collection management, or disposition decisions. The inventory structure should correspond to the property and intended use.

Documentation may include photographs, descriptions, quantities, identifying characteristics, dimensions, condition observations, location information, category groupings, research notes, and assigned values.

Replacement Cost Appraisals

Replacement cost appraisals estimate the cost to replace property with an appropriate comparable substitute, commonly for insurance coverage or certain claim-related purposes. Equivalency may depend on materials, craftsmanship, quality, age, rarity, source, availability, and the market through which a replacement could realistically be obtained.

Replacement cost and fair market value answer different questions and should not be treated as interchangeable.

Fair Market Value Appraisals

Fair market value is generally associated with the price at which property would change hands between willing and informed parties, neither acting under compulsion, in the relevant market and under the assumptions applicable to the assignment.

Estate, probate, donation, divorce, tax, collateral, planning, and other assignments may require fair market value, but the controlling definition and market must be confirmed for each engagement.

Appraisal Review, Expert Consultation and Collection Strategy

Alicia’s experience includes appraisal review, expert-witness support, professional instruction, private-client consulting, collection management, and guidance concerning potential disposition resources. These services are defined separately from an appraisal when the role, intended use, or potential conflict requires separation.

When an assignment involves property beyond one appraiser’s demonstrated competency, she coordinates appropriate specialists, conservators, authenticators, laboratories, auction-market resources, legal advisors, or other professionals while maintaining a clear project structure.

Appraisal Review

Review work examines whether an appraisal’s scope, methodology, market evidence, assumptions, analysis, reporting, and conclusions are credible and internally consistent for the intended review purpose.

Expert Witness and Instruction

Expert assignments may involve appraisal explanation, rebuttal, consultation, deposition, testimony, or educational presentation. The role and opinions are defined by the engagement and supported by the applicable evidence.

Consulting and Disposition Guidance

Separate consulting may help clients evaluate collection-management, sale, auction, private-market, donation, retention, storage, transportation, or liquidation considerations without confusing advisory work with an independent appraisal conclusion.

Define the Assignment

Confirm the client, intended users, intended use, effective date, property categories, type of value, relevant market, available records, inspection needs, deadlines, and reporting requirements.

Inspect and Document

Examine the property when appropriate; record descriptions, markings, dimensions, materials, construction, photographs, condition observations, supporting documents, and other relevant characteristics.

Research and Analyze

Investigate identification, provenance, authenticity information, market conditions, comparable sales, replacement sources, historical evidence, specialist input, and factors influencing value.

Report and Review

Connect the evidence, methodology, assumptions, market analysis, and conclusions in a report appropriate to the intended use, followed by applicable quality-control or peer-review procedures.

Condition and Physical Characteristics

Age, wear, damage, repairs, restoration, completeness, materials, construction, craftsmanship, finish, structural integrity, function, and obsolescence can materially influence market response and value.

Provenance and Historical Significance

Ownership history, authentication documents, exhibition records, publication history, cultural significance, rarity, maker information, and associations with notable people or events may affect both marketability and value.

Market Selection and Demand

The appropriate buyer and seller market, sales venue, geographic reach, timing, market tier, economic conditions, fashion, supply, demand, and available comparables influence the relevance of the evidence used.

Fair Market Value

A market-based value applied to many estate, tax, probate, donation, divorce, collateral, and planning assignments, subject to the specific definition and assumptions governing the engagement.

Orderly Liquidation Value

A value premise associated with an orderly sale over a reasonable exposure period, allowing organized marketing while recognizing the need to convert the property to cash.

Forced Liquidation Value

A value premise associated with a compelled or highly time-constrained sale. Limited exposure and urgency may produce results different from fair market value or an orderly liquidation.

ISA CAPP Designation

Alicia holds the Certified Appraiser of Personal Property designation through the International Society of Appraisers. Her existing professional profile identifies her as one of only 108 appraisers in North America holding this advanced credential.

The designation reflects advanced study and demonstrated knowledge of appraisal theory, methodology, professional standards, report development, and personal property practice. Learn more about the International Society of Appraisers.

Education and Professional Development

Alicia earned her degree from the University of Colorado Boulder. Her professional development combines formal appraisal education, continuing standards study, market research, object knowledge, private-client experience, team leadership, and more than two decades of practical appraisal work.

Her property knowledge includes fine art, antique furniture, decorative arts, household contents, collections, and general tangible personal property.

Professional Leadership

As founder, President, and Head of Appraisals, Alicia oversees a national appraisal operation and helps establish standards for intake, assignment planning, staffing, documentation, research, report development, quality control, professional training, and client communication.

She mentors developing appraisers and coordinates teams whose complementary specialties allow Prestige Estate Services to address substantial mixed-property assignments.

Relevant Qualifications

• Appraisal education and current standards training
• Demonstrated experience with the property category
• Understanding of the intended use and required value definition
• Access to appropriate market data and research resources
• Ability to explain scope, methodology, assumptions, and conclusions

Professional Independence

• No predetermined or outcome-dependent value conclusion
• Clear disclosure of assumptions and limiting conditions
• Appropriate separation of appraisal and disposition roles
• Confidential handling of client and property information
• Willingness to involve another specialist when required

Useful Reporting

• Readable inventory and organized item descriptions
• Photographs and condition information when relevant
• Market evidence corresponding to the property and value premise
• Supported conclusions tied to the effective date
• Reporting appropriate for the attorneys, fiduciaries, insurers, tax professionals, courts, or private clients relying on it

Is Alicia Weaver limited to one city or region?

No. Alicia travels throughout the United States and abroad for select high-level projects. Her involvement is determined by the property, intended use, complexity, location, timeline, travel requirements, and whether her leadership or appraisal experience is appropriate for the assignment.

What is a personal property appraisal?

It is a professional valuation of tangible movable property supported by identification, inspection when appropriate, market research, analysis, a defined effective date, an applicable value definition, and reporting designed for the assignment’s intended use.

Does Alicia provide real estate appraisals?

No. Alicia Weaver and Prestige Estate Services appraise tangible personal property. We do not provide real estate appraisals.

What types of assignments may require Alicia’s direct involvement?

Her direct involvement may be appropriate for substantial estates, high-net-worth private-client matters, complex mixed collections, national or international travel assignments, appraisal review, expert consultation, sensitive insurance matters, tax-related projects, or assignments requiring team coordination.

Are insurance and fair market value appraisals the same?

No. Insurance assignments often require replacement-cost analysis, while estate, tax, probate, donation, or divorce assignments may require fair market value. The intended use and controlling value definition determine the analysis.

How does Prestige Estate Services select the appropriate appraiser?

The firm reviews the intended use, effective date, location, property categories, value level, complexity, deadlines, inspection needs, reporting requirements, and appraiser competency before assigning Alicia, another appraiser, or a coordinated project team.