Leveraging more than 45 years of experience in real estate appraisal, forensic valuation consulting, and expert testimony services, this real estate appraisal and valuation expert witness specializes in tax appeals, inverse condemnation claims, diminution in value disputes, construction defect matters, bankruptcy-related valuation issues, lease renewal disputes, mortgage lending matters, estate planning valuations, gifting analyses, and appraisal standard of care issues. Educational qualifications include a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management earned with honors. The expert provides valuation opinions and litigation support services involving arbitration proceedings, mediation matters, consultations, depositions, and courtroom testimony for attorneys, lenders, accountants, corporations, municipalities, publicly traded entities, and individual property owners.

Areas of analysis include fee simple, leased fee, easement, air rights, and partial interest appraisals involving residential, commercial, industrial, agricultural, and special-purpose properties together with institutional-grade tenant-in-common (TIC) investment structures, land development projects, residential subdivisions, apartment complexes, shopping centers, office buildings, warehouses, industrial and research and development facilities, medical office buildings and surgery centers, schools, gas stations, self-storage facilities, funeral homes, movie theaters, mobile home parks, skilled nursing facilities, auto dealerships, condominiums, and attached and detached single-family residential properties. Additional assignments have involved vacant and improved land valuations associated with acquisition, financing, taxation, development, purchase and sale transactions, and complex real property disputes.

Extensive litigation and consulting experience further includes expert witness testimony for both plaintiffs and defendants involving eminent domain proceedings, appraisal standard of care matters, diminution in value analyses, and property valuation disputes before the U.S. District Court, California Superior Courts, the Public Utility Commission of the State of California, and the American Arbitration Association. The expert’s forensic appraisal and valuation consulting background also includes assignments involving real property dispute arbitration and mediation, inverse condemnation matters, mortgage lending disputes, bankruptcy proceedings, and construction defect-related valuation analyses. Additional consulting responsibilities have included valuation work connected to municipal land-use and fee-related matters as well as property damage assignments involving large-scale residential loss events and real property diminution analyses. Earlier leadership responsibilities included management and oversight of appraisal and valuation consulting operations involving residential, commercial, industrial, land, and special-purpose property assignments throughout Northern California and the San Francisco Bay Area.

Recognized for leadership within the appraisal profession, this expert holds the MAI and SRA designations awarded through the Appraisal Institute and currently serves on the Santa Clara County Assessment Appeals Board, where the expert was elected Chairperson in 2017. Professional committee participation has included service with the International Right-of-Way Association and the Appraisal Institute involving appraisal standards, valuation methodology, and real property issues affecting litigation support and assessment appeals. The expert’s professional background additionally includes decades of appraisal and consulting experience involving municipalities, attorneys, lenders, private entities, and publicly traded companies in connection with complex valuation, taxation, financing, development, and real estate dispute matters.