Real Estate Expert Witnesses in California

This expert is a highly qualified and multi-faceted business professional and educated. He is a top-ranked, tenured professor at one of the nation's top universities, and a successful real estate developer/investor. Widely quoted, he has appeared on BBC World News, Bloomberg, CNN, FOX News, NBC's The Today Show, NPR, and all major dailies including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Financial Times. A highly sought-after speaker, he regularly presents to leading business, government, and nonprofit organizations. Currently, this expert is the principal of a real estate investment firm, principal of a litigation support/expert testimony firm, and a lecturer in real estate, finance and law at a top university business/law school.

This experienced trial lawyer has taken 105 cases to judgment and verdict, specializing in business, real estate, and legal malpractice. He earned his J.D. from the University of Southern California Law School and then spent several years with law firm Meserve, Mumper & Hughes. The expert later worked as a Partner for Haight, Dickson, Brown & Bonesteel, where he was in charge of the legal malpractice unit. He also served as a Principal with Rodi, Pollock, Pettker, Galbraith & Phillips and then with Newkirk, Newkirk, Rolin & Drucker. The expert is a Member of the Superior Court Arbitration Panel and a Past President of the Lawyers Professional Liability Bar Association of Southern California. He currently focuses his consulting efforts on attorney conduct in compliance with applicable standards of care.

This expert earned his BA in Political Science and his JD from the University of California. He has developed a track record of successes and is frequently quoted in media throughout the United States. In addition, he is highly recognized in his field and gained his experience in law by initially working in a well known national firm, while later honing his skills at a well respected real estate and entertainment law firm. Currently, he serves as the Lead Trial Attorney at a leading real estate firm in Los Angeles.

This expert is a CPA with over 30 years experience in forensic accounting and economics. He regularly serves as an expert witness to present economic damage calculations or other matters involving accounting, finance or business valuation. He is currently the principle founder of a financial and economics consulting firm.

This qualified expert has over 35 years of experience in real estate. He earned his BA in film and broadcasting from Stanford University. He began his career in real estate with Coldwell Banker Commercial as a real estate portfolio manner. He has been licensed as a real estate broker in California for 36 years, and is a certified property manager and commercial investment member. He is also a LEED-accredited professional. This expert has extensive experience in property management, as he has been the director of property management for La Caze Development Company and the owner of Weiner Property Management. This expert is a distinguished professional in the field, having received Certified Property Manager of the Year from the Institute of Real Estate Management in California. Currently, he works as the executive vice president for a tenant representation brokerage firm in California.

This qualified expert has over 40 years of experience in the field of property management. He earned his BA in history from Stanford University. He holds numerous certifications, which include OSHA construction site safety, property management, commercial investment, and forensic litigation consulting. He is a member of several real estate associations, including the Institute of Real Estate Management and the National Association of Residential Property Managers. This expert began his career in property management as a licensee, investor, and property manager before becoming a real estate broker in the state of California. He also served as a partner for First Affiliated Finance Corporation, as well as the founder and general manager for CRE Property Management. Currently, he serves as a senior associate at an expert witness and consulting firm in California.

This expert has over 25 years of experience in the life insurance industry in southern California and is familiar with post-claims underwriting issues. He earned his BA in psychology from California State University Northridge. He is a certified insurance counselor and fund specialist, and is an associate in both insurance services and personal insurance. He specializes in life, home, and personal insurance. The expert holds agent status with six major carriers, including elite status with Travelers. He is also a member of several associations, including the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors and the American Bar Association. He currently serves as is the president and principal agent of a private insurance agency in California.

This highly-qualified expert has extensive experience in the real estate industry. His work has focused on commercial real estate acquisition and ownership, as well as capital aggregation and investment management. He completed his academic training at UCLA, earning his BA, an MA in economics, and his JD from the university. This expert is a licensed real estate broker in California and is active in his field as a member of the California Business Properties Association. He formerly founded and ran SHAREbid.com, an online marketplace for the sale of private company shares. Currently, this expert is the founder of a real estate investment crowdfunding platform and a real estate investment trusts (REITs) hedge fund management company based in California.

This expert has extensive experience in photography and videography. He earned his BA in psychology, sociology, and communications from San Diego State University. He is a certified instructor of forensic photography and a licensed real estate broker. He began his career with the San Diego Police Department, serving as a level III reserve officer and a crisis intervention counselor, as well as a photographer. This expert then started his own company, Jacobson & Associates, a property management, brokerage and syndication company. He owned and operated this business for 19 years before transitioning to full time work as a photographer for An Amazing World Photography. This expert currently serves as the president, lead photographer and videographer, and instructor of a forensic photography and videography company in California.

This expert has over 35 years of experience in the banking, finance, investment, and brokerage business. He earned his BA in philosophy, economics, and accounting from Pomona College and is licensed as both a California Real Estate Broker and California Finance Lender and Broker. He is a member of the National Association of Realtors and the California Association of Realtors. He formerly served as a commercial loan officer at Bank of America, as the chief financial officer of Engineered Equipment Company, and as the senior vice president of Mellon Bank and Regents Bank. This expert is currently the president and CEO of a commercial real estate lending company in California.

This highly qualified and experience gemologist is a Graduate Gemologist (GG) from the Gemological Institute of America and an Accredited Senior Appraiser (ASA) with the American Society Appraisers. He is one of the few Master Gemologist Appraisers in the U.S. He has served as an expert witness in many high profile cases and observes the Code of Ethics of the American Society of Appraisers and all documents and services offered are provided in conformity with the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP). This experts clients include major manufacturers, auction houses, retail stores, industry professionals, high profile and celebrity clients. He has been in practice for 16+ years.

This expert is a professional Mobile Home Park (MHP) consultant, and heads a company set up to consult, manage, buy, sell, own and operate MHPs. He currently works with over 70 MHPs across the country, and has been involved with real estate for 37 years and MHP sales in particular for over a decade. He specializes 'turn-arounds', which includes, maintenance, repair, improvement, operations, and problem-solving on distressed or poorly-run mobile home parks.

This station valuation and broadcast station economics expert has been working in the media and entertainment industry for over 40 years. He studied Radio and Television at Ithaca College prior to receiving his M.B.A. with a concentration in Finance from American University. He is a former Founding Partner of DES Associates, where he worked for nearly a decade providing appraisal and acquisition analysis to the broadcasting industry. During this time he concurrently served as an Associate Editor for Paul Kagan Association. He left DES to form ComCapital Group, an investment banking company that specialized in station acquisition financing, valuations, and related financial consulting. Currently, this expert is the President and Founding Partner of an investment banking company that provides appraisal services and specialized economic analysis for the TV and radio broadcasting industry. Over the course of his career, this expert has appraised over 4,000 broadcast TV and radio stations with aggregate values in excess of $50 billion. His scholarly articles on the topics of broadcast station valuation and finance have been featured in publications such as the "Journal of Broadcast Financial Management�, "Broadcasting", and "Broadcast Management & Engineering", while he has been recognized as a broadcast station valuation and economic expert by the Subcommittee on Telecommunications of the U.S. Congress. This expert has also been qualified as an expert in station valuation and broadcast station economics in proceedings before the U.S. Supreme Court and has prepared valuation and economic studies that were incorporated in proceedings before the Federal Communications Commission.

This expert is a highly trained and experienced commercial real estate practitioner with a wealth of practical knowledge gained over more than 34 years of operating, leasing, maintaining and overseeing millions of square feet of all types of commercial properties. He is a certified property manager and teaches courses for both the IREM and BOMA which layout proper protocols for safety standards. Currently, this expert is the VP of Property Management for a real estate management firm.

This expert has over 30 years of experience in residential property management with a portfolio including multi-family apartments, condominium units, and single-family homes. After receiving his BA in business administration from National University this expert went on to become a certified property manager and certified community association manager. He is also a licensed real estate broker in California and Illinois. He previously worked as the co-owner and president of Coastside Property Management, Inc. He has been an active participant at the local and national level in the Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM) where he previously served as the San Diego chapter president. He regularly instructs several national courses and seminars for the IREM, including courses specializing in successful site management, real estate management ethics and introductions to managing residential properties and community associations. Throughout his career, this expert has provided training in property management to over 500 residential managers. He is currently the senior vice president of property and asset management for a multi-state, full-service property management company.