Question: I'm confused as to what to call the insurance value in my appraisal report. Some people call it Replacement Cost, some call it Replacement Value, and some call it Replacement Cost Value. What is the right term that I should be using?
Answer: ISA prefers the term Replacement Cost to be used in insurance appraisals. Why is that? Let's go back to Lesson 1 in the Core Course. Cost is the amount of money paid for an item. Unlike value, cost is not always justified. Just because you paid X amount of dollars for an item, doesn't mean it's worth that much. The monetary worth of an object is its value. Thus, for insurance, when you are estimating the cost to replace an item (either by production, reproduction, or purchase), the correct term to use is Replacement Cost. Other organizations may use the term Replacement Value to mean the same thing as Replacement Cost, but we wish to differentiate ourselves by using the proper words. As for Replacement Cost Value, this term is sometimes used by insurance companies to mean Replacement Cost or Replacement Value, but really it only causes more confusion. Replacement Cost is the most correct term to use.
- Meredith Meuwly, ISA CAPP
Director of Education
Director of Education
What does one do in an appraisal if you have two kinds of Replacement Cost that are used to determine your figures. In other words, if you have a Replacement Cost, New for one work (say, for a portrait that will be recreated by a living artist) and a Replacement Cost, Used (by purchase, for the rest of the artworks in the collection)? How do you write that up in the Cover Document? And isn't Replacement Cost, Used the same thing as Fair Market Value? How does one handle that?
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