The Australian Property Institute is deeply saddened to advise members of the passing of Keith Norris, Life Fellow of the API.

Keith was a beacon within the Valuation profession. He was a long-term contributor to the success of the API in all its functions. Keith demonstrated outstanding generosity and willingness always to mentor other valuers and advance their careers. Keith was held in the highest esteem by his friends, colleagues and all who knew him.

Keith’s career in the profession began in 1965, when he joined the New South Wales Valuer General’s Department as a clerk, going on to complete his valuation training at Sydney Technical College in 1969. He went on to serve as a Valuer with the NSW Public Service before moving into private practice with L.J. Hooker, then Gilbert and Kennedy, where he became a director in 1984. He later returned to the Hooker Corporation as National Valuation Director, before becoming a Director of Egan National Valuers in 1993 – the business with which he remained longest.

Keith served as NSW Division President in 1988–1989 and as National President from May 1991, a period during which he oversaw the amalgamation of the Australian Institute of Valuers and Land Administrators with the Society of Land Economists. He was awarded Life Fellowship of the Institute in 1994 in recognition of his extensive service to the profession.

Though admitted as a lawyer, Keith chose to build his career in the valuation profession, rising to proprietorial level across several valuation businesses. Keith was a highly regarded expert witness in valuation defence matters, respected by valuers and lawyers alike for the calibre of his evidence. In 1988, and again in a second edition in 1994, he co-authored Valuers Liability with Lindsay Joyce, a text that has been cited widely in professional literature and court judgments, and which drew on Keith’s deep practical valuation knowledge.

It’s fitting that even as a young affiliate sitting his Viva Voce examination in 1967, Keith’s examiners noted him as an intelligent young man with a genuine interest in his profession – a description that held true for the whole of his career.

Beyond his professional achievements, Keith is remembered by colleagues as a true gentleman humble, warm, and always ready with a laugh.

He leaves behind a profession, and many friends within it, that are better for having known him.

The API extends its sincere condolences to Keith’s family, friends, and colleagues.

A funeral service for Keith Norris will be held at St Joseph’s Church, cnr Lagoon and Waterloo Streets, Narrabeen, 11.00am, Friday 7 August 2026.