More than 25 years of experience in real property damage economics, property valuation, diminution in value, and litigation support underpin this expert’s work involving commercial and industrial properties, subdivisions, vacant land, and single- and multi-family residences. His expertise includes appraisal and appraisal review, detrimental conditions valuation, eminent domain, environmental contamination, soil and geotechnical conditions, construction conditions, natural disasters, bankruptcy, project delay, easements, encroachments, highest and best use, market analysis, retrospective valuation, risk analysis, and damage calculations. He also has extensive experience with flooding and sewer backup matters involving industrial properties, residential properties, and subdivisions. He has more than 25 years of expert witness experience providing consultation, deposition, and courtroom testimony and has provided expert testimony in federal and state courts and other adjudicative settings.

His professional background includes work as a forensic appraiser, real property damage economist, and valuation consultant, as well as service as the founder of a forensic real estate consulting practice, with prior experience at a boutique real estate damages consulting firm and a major professional services organization. His assignments have addressed diminution in value and economic damages arising from environmental contamination, eminent domain and inverse condemnation, construction defects and delays, natural disasters, flooding, fires, landslides, oil and chemical releases, transmission corridors, bankruptcy, and other detrimental conditions. His appraisal experience encompasses office and medical buildings, industrial facilities, residential developments, apartments, hotels, retail properties, shopping centers, landfills, easements, agricultural land, oil and gas properties, and other specialized real property.

His educational background includes a Bachelor of Arts in Economics, a Master of Arts in Sculpture, and three years of postgraduate Ph.D. study in Human and Organizational Systems and Behavioral/Social Economics, supplemented by professional education in real estate appraisal, valuation of detrimental conditions, eminent domain, environmental contamination, appraisal review, and litigation valuation. He holds the MAI designation from the Appraisal Institute, the Accredited Senior Appraiser (ASA) designation from the American Society of Appraisers, and the Fellow (FRICS) designation from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. His professional affiliations include the Appraisal Institute, Lambda Alpha International, American Economic Association, American Law and Economics Association, International Right of Way Association, American Society of Appraisers, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Forensic Expert Witness Association, and American Bar Association Litigation Section.