About Fine Estates & Antiques
Fine Estates & Antiques has served Arizona individuals, families, and businesses since 1999.
About Fine Estates & Antiques
We can help you correctly and efficiently appraise, evaluate, and/or sell your personal property. We’ve helped thousands of people throughout Arizona since 1999.
We are especially equipped to help you with unique collections, trusts, assisted living transitions, probate, divorce, down-sizing, foreclosure, short-sales, and hoarding. For these needs and more, we work with our clients to develop a plan for the best path forward for dealing with their personal property.
Our connections and clients are wide ranging. Doing in business in Arizona for years has allowed us to help individuals, families in need, real estate agents, professional organizers, antique dealers, bankers, lawyers, home owners, and assisted living companies.
We help people deal with their personal property in the best way possible. If you would like to discuss your personal property needs, connect with us for a free consultation.
Designations and Affiliations
Expert Arizona estate sale guidance.
Fully licensed and insured in the state of Arizona.
Fine Estates & Antiques - Our Provenance
The history of how Fine Estates and Antiques, Inc., also known as “Fine Estates”, became what it is today, is essentially a story of a hobby – becoming a passion – becoming a vocation. Founder and CEO Jim Friend had a vision for building an antique business with its own gallery. In the mid 90’s, this vision came to fruition in the form of a store called “Estate Gallery”, where pieces from private estates were purchased and then sold in this gallery.
With his family, he looked into the auction world, antique exhibitions, and dealer interaction. In an ever-changing antique business, the need for a different location with more exposure came in the late 90’s. “Estate Gallery” moved from the well-known 32nd Street and Lincoln Drive location (above the Biltmore area), to a larger Scottsdale Road and Thomas gallery-showroom.
This experience in retail called for an evolution in future estate services. The family sold the gallery to the notable “Barrett-Jackson” auction family, and decided to seek out the auction side of the business full-time. Taking over a small, well-known local estate auction in Scottsdale proved to be a quick success, grabbing the attention of a larger, well-known Canadian house desiring to merge the two into an all-encompassing service. Before the 3rd anniversary of the auction company, came an unexpected but prosperous sale of the auction business.
Fine Estates & Antiques was born soon after this sale, allowing Jim Friend to offer his expertise in antiques and personal property evaluation and sales to clients like you.
Mr. Friend has obtained his valuable “GPPA” (Graduate Personal Property Appraiser) license, “NAA” (National Auctioneer’s association) auctioneer’s license, followed by the unique “CES” (Certified Estate Specialist) certification to provide his customers with a deeper knowledge of how to correctly handle estates.
Mr. Friend furthered his education with “USPAP” (Uniform Standard Professional Appraiser’s Practice) compliancy to offer written USPAP-compliant appraisals of personal property to all estate representatives, trustees, lawyers, home owners, banks, and fiduciaries.
If we can help you with appraising or selling valuables, please do not hesitate to contact us.
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