To consult clients by considering their investment goals, alternatives, resources, constraints and the timing of such related activities. To advise zoning boards, courts, and planners on the probable effects of proposed actions. To determine supply and demand of domestic real estate market.     To help prospective buyers setting offering prices To help prospective sellers determining acceptable selling prices To establish a basis for real property exchanges To establish a basis for reorganizing or merging of the ownership of strata-title properties To determine the terms of a certain sale price for a proposed transaction     To provide investors with a sound basis for decisions on assets allocation, including purchase of real estate mortgages, bonds, or other types of securities To establish a basis for a decision to insure or to underwrite a loan on real estate property To provide reasonable market prices, forced sale prices and auction prices of a pool of real estate for banks, AMCs and FASC for their references     To estimate the market value of a property as a whole, before a taking To estimate the market value of the remainder after a taking To estimate the damages of a property created by a taking To estimate the market value of a property under contract disputes     To set rent schedule and lease provisions To determine the feasibility of a construction project or a renovation program To estimate liquidation value for forced sale or auction proceedings To estimate the market value of real estate as part of a portfolio