Focused on real estate appraisal and valuation for more than 20 years, this expert provides valuation services for commercial and high-value residential properties, with particular emphasis on litigation support, diminution in value, eminent domain, taxation, partial interests, zoning, and mortgage-related valuation issues. His experience also includes commercial and residential mortgage brokerage, appraisal review, due diligence, and property inspections. He has more than 10 years of expert witness experience providing consultations, depositions, and courtroom testimony involving real estate valuation and appraisal matters.

His professional experience includes serving as a Certified General Real Estate Appraiser, Small Claims Assessment Review Hearing Officer, Part 36 Appraiser, Real Estate Instructor, Faculty Member, and Mortgage Broker for private real estate appraisal firms, academic institutions, and government agencies. Throughout his career, he has appraised a broad range of commercial and residential properties, including office buildings, shopping centers, industrial facilities, hotels, apartment buildings, mixed-use developments, easements, vacant land, and high-value residential properties. His work has focused on valuation matters involving condemnation, eminent domain, diminution in value, property tax appeals, estate and gift tax valuation, foreclosure, equitable distribution, guardianship, financing, acquisitions, and other litigated real estate matters. He has also performed appraisal reviews, property inspections, and due diligence evaluations and has been qualified as an expert witness in state and federal courts.

He earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree and completed graduate studies in Real Estate Valuation, along with advanced education in appraisal methodology, income property valuation, easement valuation, federal land acquisition standards, and the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP). He is licensed as a New York State Certified General Real Estate Appraiser, a New York State Approved Real Estate Instructor, a New York State Approved Small Claims Assessment Review Officer, an Appraisal Foundation/AQB Qualified USPAP Instructor, and is Yellow Book Qualified (UASFLA). His professional affiliations include the Columbia Society of Real Estate Appraisers, where he has served in multiple leadership roles including President, the Appraisal Institute, the New York Condemnation Conference, and the Real Estate Board of New York.