Uncommon Valuation Types Almost all appraisals are of general commercial real estate or homes, for financing purposes, and for bank clients.  As a result almost all appraisers are trained to do only this one group of assets for this one purpose and one type of client. If you are a different type of client, have any other type of property or business, or have some other purpose for your appraisal, then you need a specialist appraiser.  Federal Appraisal specializes in such non-traditional appraisals. From utilities and power plants, specially built real estate, governments, attorneys, accountants, tax, litigation, to development issues, Federal Appraisal provides specialized valuation expertise, including uncommon valuation types. Uncommon Valuation Types Appraisal Review Testimony and Oral Reporting Summary Reporting Calculations Mass Appraisals Portfolio Appraisals Business Valuations Business Intangibles Appraisals Personal Property Appraisals Damages Estimates Cost Segregation Purchase Price Allocations Partial Interest Discount Studies

Survey Research Survey Research represents an underutilized analysis technique within real estate and business valuation community.  Nearly everyone within the appraisal community knows about the “three approaches to value”.  Survey Research offers a fourth approach to value, or another analysis technique, in support of the three approaches.  Federal Appraisal LLC offers survey research services based on the deep academic traditions of social and economic survey research. To understand the utility of survey research, it may be helpful to recognize the following: An appraisal is an opinion, and survey research is especially useful in measuring opinions. We are familiar with political polls and other public opinion polls. The same research theories and techniques can be applied to numerous issues within appraisal, in particular the issues of market opinions of value and the elements of value. With its deep academic tradition in the social sciences, survey research offers avenues to research, and foundations for appraisal conclusions that may not exist elsewhere. This is why the appraisal community is perhaps unknowingly already using survey research.  Examples include discount and cap rate surveys, cost manuals, and various Federal Reserve and Bureau of Labor Statistics. View our Survey Research on Approaches for Power Plants. Federal Appraisal LLC offers next generation survey research services to the appraisal, real estate, and economics communities, surrounding real estate, and business valuation.

Governments and Governmental Activities Often, each level of government and each agency has their own appraisal procedures and practices.  Federal Appraisal LLC specializes in appraisals for accounting and legal contexts to the numerous governments and agencies at federal, state, and local levels. Appraisal and appraisal consulting requirements vary significantly from government agency to government agency.  While the variances are often simple, the failure to meet the requirements can lead to a critical non-compliance.  The non-compliance may be non-recoverable and often cost thousands of dollars but in some cases could cost upwards of tens of thousands, to hundreds of thousands, of dollars.  Federal Appraisal offers expert appraisal and appraisal consulting services for many of the major government agencies. IRS The Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and the courts that hear its cases, prescribes its own appraisal practices and procedures.  While the appraisal theory behind IRS appraisals is mostly the same as other appraisals, failure to comply with IRS specific procedures can result in the disqualification of an appraisal and a loss of essential support for a tax stance. Federal Appraisal LLC provides IRS appraisals for both taxpayers and the IRS. Federal Appraisal LLC provides numerous services to assist property and business owners in managing the various tax and audit issues that impact real and personal property and businesses. See our IRS page, as well as our accountants pages and our attorneys pages. HUD The Federal Housing and Urban Development Agency (HUD) prescribes its own appraisal procedures and its own appraisal formats.  While the appraisal theory behind the HUD appraisals is the same as other appraisals, failure to comply with HUD's own procedures and formats can result in the disqualification of an appraisal.   See our HUD page. Property Tax Assessment and Appeals There are numerous occasions where the value of a property is related to taxes.  Each taxing situation requires special appraisal and consulting considerations.  The considerations might be a specialized appraisal for cost segregation, depreciation, and income tax.  Another might be a explanation and justification for a divergence from the purchase price basis for a transfer or gains tax calculation.  Others pertain to tax position, basis, or feasibility, as with impairments, structured leases, barter agreements, gifts, and estates. Each taxing situation requires appraisal and consulting experience in order to maximize taxing goals.   Federal Appraisal specializes in providing appraisals for tax issues. GSA The General Services Administration of the federal government handles the real estate acquisition and leasing for most of the federal agencies.  They have special biding, contracting, and reporting requirements.  While the requirements are easy enough to meet, the mismanagement of the requirements could add substantial delays to a project. SEC & Investor Relations Federal Appraisal LLC can provide any of the real estate appraisals and valuation reporting support required by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).  Whether its SEC reporting requirements to compliance with the appropriate accounting, tax, and audit reporting procedures, or it’s a special issue reporting requirement, Federal Appraisal LLC can help.  Mark to Market Federal Appraisal LLC provides “Mark to Market” Appraisal Services as required by the Government Accounting Standards Board (“GASB”) new rule, Statement 52. The rule requires state and local government endowment funds that hold land and other real estate as investments to report the asset or liability at fair value beginning next year. When real estate is marked to market, for accounting purposes it is assigned the value that it would fetch in the open market. Currently, governments report such assets and liabilities at historical cost. See our Mark to Market page. See our Business Appraisal and Valuation and our Property

Expert Testimony and Litigation Support Federal Appraisal, LLC provides expert testimony, litigation, and dispute resolution for complex real estate litigation issues. We provide our clients with both geographical and topical dispute resolution support expertise, regardless of where the assets are located, what type of assets are involved, or what kind of issues are involved. Call for a free services-scoping consultation for your specific dispute. Our services include: expert testimony Property Tax Appeals bankruptcies and reorganizations damages estimates support for the cross examination of experts support for partnership disputes support for landlord/tenant disputes traditional and nontraditional valuation and appraisal services value, income and yield analyses Business Interruptions; damages estimates environment issues Lease Audit & Analysis financial or operations analysis fairness opinions and comfort letters research services, including economic, demographic and GIS statistical analysis services, including regression analysis, options pricing market positioning strategies arbitration and mediation Because valuation issues are often complex, dispute resolution often requires the coordination of multidisciplinary teams. We strongly recommend to our clients that they engage valuation experts as early as possible in the dispute resolution process. We are convinced the great number of lengthy and costly disputes could be avoided or could be resolved more quickly, if the parties involved were in possession of proper valuation services earlier in the process. Unfortunately, all too often, parties in dispute are under the mistaken impression that because of the cost, valuation services should not be obtained until late into the process. There are, in fact, numerous consulting services available to the parties involved in the dispute that are both appropriate for use early in the dispute and are relatively inexpensive. Click Considerations for Valuation and Litigation for an article written by Mark Pomykacz, the Managing Partner of Federal Appraisal, LLC, on the topic of litigation and real estate appraisal expert. Business Interruption Consulting, Damages Estimates Federal Appraisal, LLC provides consulting and appraisal services to individuals and companies suffering from business interruptions and damages from natural and man-made disasters and accidents. If the loss or diminution of the use of your real estate is causing a loss in business income and/or is reducing the utility or value of your real estate, then Federal Appraisal, LLC may be able to help you recoup your damages. Even tenants in damaged or reduced utility space can benefit from our services. The actual or alleged loss or damage might be from contractual breaches, environmental conditions, weather, physical damages, external-to-the-site conditions, or malfeasance or non-feasance. Federal Appraisal, LLC provides appraisals of damages, lost income and stigma for negotiations, and court testimony for or against insurance companies, property owners, and defendants. Management Consulting Issues and Solutions for Attorneys Federal Appraisal provides user-defined scopes of services and agreed upon procedures services relating to attorneys. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Federal Appraisal, LLC provides the real estate appraisals and valuation reporting support required by the SEC. See our SEC page for more information. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Federal Appraisal, LLC provides the real estate appraisals and valuation reporting support required by the IRS. See our IRS page for more information. Federal Appraisal, LLC is not a law firm or an accounting firm. As such it does not offer legal or audit opinions. Federal Appraisal can obtain and/or manage those services for its clients, and Federal Appraisal can offer referral to law firms and/or accounting firms for such services.