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Valuation & Advisory Services
Our Valuation & Advisory professionals tackle complexity head-on
Cushman & Wakefield’s Valuation & Advisory team delivers comprehensive insight across the full spectrum of commercial real estate in the U.S. Backed by more than 500 credentialed professionals, we provide valuations, rigorous due diligence, and strategic advisory services for every asset type—from office, retail, and industrial to multifamily and highly specialized properties such as data centers, hotels, and the infrastructure that connects them.
Our experts combine real-time market intelligence, financial modeling, and sector-specific expertise to help clients understand asset value, assess risk, and unlock strategic opportunities. Whether evaluating a single asset or a large, complex portfolio, we serve as trusted partners, delivering objective analysis that supports confident investment decisions and maximizes returns in dynamic market conditions.
Ready to unlock the insights that drive smarter investment decisions? Contact our team today.
DELIVERING RESULTS
What Sets Us Apart
Relentlessly Seeking Better Answers
Our professionals integrate comprehensive market research with detailed property analysis, delivering solutions grounded in real-world conditions. Each engagement reflects current market dynamics and regulatory requirements, ensuring clients receive actionable intelligence.
Complexity Is Our Starting Point
Complex portfolios and challenging assets energize our team. We apply systematic discipline to every engagement, evaluating assets with an approach that considers current market realities and future potential, including zoning, environmental, and economic factors.
Forward-Looking Perspective
Real estate markets evolve rapidly, and our analysis maintains pace. We leverage real-time market intelligence and trend analysis to assist clients in navigating shifting conditions. Our solutions incorporate emerging trends that shape property values nationwide.
Insight, Integrity, Impact
Our approach combines technical rigor with objective analysis. Our metrics reflect accountability and trust, supported by professionals who comprehend market nuances, from GAAP compliance to local zoning, enabling confident decision-making.
Specialized Expertise at Global Scale
Our sector-specific knowledge spans from logistics to life sciences. We deliver services based upon a profound understanding of sectors and geographies ensuring insightful analysis coupled with geographic expertise.
An Advisory Approach That Goes Further
We serve as strategic partners, assisting clients in understanding asset value, optimization opportunities, and repositioning strategies. Our advisory considers market positioning and regulatory compliance to maximize value within dynamic US markets.
Services
Our Services
Banking & Financial Services
Delivering appraisal services that support lending, risk management, and underwriting decisions. Our experts combine regulatory expertise, rigorous analysis, and nationwide coverage to ensure defensible valuations across all property types and loan portfolios.
Appraisal Management
Streamlined independent, compliant, and efficient valuation delivery—coordinating appraisers, reviews, timelines, and quality controls to support accurate lending and risk decisions.
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Financial Reporting & Tax Services
Institutional Client Services
Sophisticated valuation, assessment, and advisory solutions for institutional investors, providing accurate asset valuations, property condition and environmental due diligence, and portfolio insights. We support acquisition, disposition, financing, and reporting needs across all property types, helping institutions optimize performance, manage risk, and make informed, strategic investment decisions at scale.
Corporate Services
Serving corporate clients with GAAP-aligned valuation and advisory services, including fair value measurements, purchase price allocations, lease accounting, and impairment testing. Our experts ensure accuracy, audit readiness, and compliance, helping organizations manage financial reporting obligations and make strategic, data-driven decisions across their real estate portfolios.
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Trusts & Estates
Specialized valuation services for trust and estate matters, providing defensible, IRS-compliant appraisals for gifting, estate settlement, tax reporting, and wealth planning. Our experts evaluate complex assets with precision and discretion, helping fiduciaries, attorneys, and families navigate sensitive decisions with confidence and clarity.
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Risk Management Services
Provides comprehensive property condition, environmental, and building system evaluations to help clients understand physical risk, capital needs, and compliance requirements. We deliver clear, actionable reports that support acquisitions, financing, asset management, and long-term planning—strengthening decision-making and reducing uncertainty across diverse real estate portfolios.
Consulting Services
Market intelligence, financial analysis, and strategic guidance to support real estate decisions across the asset lifecycle. From feasibility studies and highest and best use analyses to portfolio strategy and custom research, we deliver actionable insights that help clients optimize value, reduce risk, and plan with confidence.
Dispute Analysis & Litigation Support
Qualified team of experts providing valuation, damages analysis, and testimony for complex real estate disputes. We deliver objective, defensible analyses for arbitration, litigation, eminent domain, bankruptcy, and tax matters—helping attorneys, owners, and investors navigate high-stakes situations with clarity, precision, and credibility.
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Property Tax Services
Advocate for owners to minimize tax burdens and ensure fair assessments. We provide valuation analysis, appeals, negotiations, and strategic tax planning across diverse asset types—leveraging deep market expertise and strong jurisdictional knowledge to reduce liabilities and protect asset value.
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Diligence Advisory Services
Rigorous underwriting and financial analysis for acquisitions, dispositions, and loan transactions. We evaluate cash flows, market dynamics, and asset-level risks to provide clear, data-driven insights that strengthen investment decisions, support lenders and investors, and enhance confidence in complex commercial real estate transactions.
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Specialization
Sector Expertise
Infrastructure + Energy
Our multi-disciplinary team provides specialized insight across the essential assets that power and connect our communities. From airports and rail systems to public utilities, wastewater treatment facilities, and power generation, our experts deliver precise valuations, strategic guidance and litigation support for complex infrastructure investments
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Data Centers
Our global scale team delivers clarity, precision, and strategic insight to one of the world’s most complex and rapidly expanding real estate sectors. Our specialists understand the technical, operational, and market dynamics that shape digital infrastructure, providing trusted valuations and advisory solutions across colocation, hyperscale, enterprise, and mission-critical facilities.
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Life Sciences
We combine deep scientific-facility expertise, market intelligence, and global perspective to deliver valuations, strategic insights, and risk-reducing guidance across lab, R&D, GMP, and innovation-driven environments.
Hospitality & Leisure
Delivering expert valuation, advisory, and due-diligence solutions across hotels, gaming, golf, and experiential assets with industry-seasoned professionals and global market insight. We help owners and investors understand complex dynamics, reduce risk, and unlock strategic opportunities for every type of Hospitality & Leisure property.
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Healthcare
Delivering end-to-end real estate expertise for owners, operators, and investors, we combine deep sector knowledge, rigorous analysis, and integrated services to support smarter decisions across all Healthcare property types—helping you navigate complexity, optimize performance, and stay ahead of what’s next.
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Agribusiness & Natural Resources
Our team brings deep sector expertise to the land, assets, and industries that fuel global supply chains. From farmland, row crops, timber, ranches, vineyards, and wineries to energy minerals and resource-based operations, we deliver rigorous valuations across real property, machinery & equipment, and business enterprises, providing strategic insight for complex resource investments.
Living Sectors
Expert services for apartment communities, student housing, senior living, affordable housing, co-living and other forms of residential investment properties. We analyze rental market dynamics, demographic trends, and regulatory factors that impact asset performance.
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Logistics & Industrial
Specialized expertise for distribution centers, manufacturing facilities, and logistics properties. Our team understands supply chain dynamics, transportation access, and industrial market trends that drive asset values in key logistics corridors.
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Office
Comprehensive services for operational and transitional office properties. We analyze workplace evolution trends and market positioning factors that influence this dynamic asset class.
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Retail
Our team understands evolving consumer behavior, e-commerce impacts, and repositioning opportunities that affect retail real estate values.
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Self Storage
Partner with our Self Storage industry experts for unmatched real estate solutions. Combining local expertise with global resources, we deliver accurate appraisals, comprehensive brokerage services, acquisition due diligence, litigation support, market and feasibility studies, portfolio valuations, and property tax services. Backed by the largest self-storage database in the U.S., we provide the insights and accountability you need to succeed.
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Business Valuation
Our expertise spans appraisal services for portfolios ranging from single assets to multi-property holdings across all asset types and diverse U.S. markets, from established regions to emerging growth areas nationwide.
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Machinery & Equipment
Comprehensive valuation, tax, and appraisal solutions for complex assets across industries.
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