Choosing the Right Commercial Appraiser

Real estate matters in general can get very complicated if you don’t have experience in the industry. Getting the right commercial real estate appraisal can be a downright mess if you don’t take the correct measures to ensure you bring quality and value to your appraisal. Whether you are selling a property or you are in the buying market, knowing what factors a commercial appraiser will use to make their decision is very beneficial. By educating yourself concerning the processes and guidelines that a commercial appraiser uses you will know what you should or shouldn’t expect from an appraisal.

Any quality commercial appraiser will bring to the table a specific set of ethics that they are bound to. A commercial appraiser is not in the business of haggling over valuations with the client. Do not expect to “sell” your own opinions to an appraiser. If you are having an appraiser evaluate your property which you are preparing to sell, trying to convince him or her that it is worth more is a fruitless effort. Vice-versa, trying to convince an appraiser that a property you are interested in purchasing might be worth less, is not worth your time.

Quality commercial appraisers are honest and focus on creating the appropriate valuation – nothing more, nothing less. It will behoove you as the customer to give the appraiser every piece of information you have about a property. Concealing facts or figures will only further complicate the process and in the end will more than likely end up hurting you. An accurate valuation benefits all parties involved.



The actual inspection portion of the process is only a minute fraction of the appraiser’s job. When it comes to commercial real estate, the property’s history and ownership records are a huge portion of the appraisal equation. Commercial appraisers take a long hard look at zoning. How a business is commercially zoned will have a huge impact on its possible earning potential. The factors that go into a commercial appraisal are complicated and can take a few weeks to complete the process. When this process is completed you can be sure that a quality appraisal is thorough and up to the standards of the best appraisers in the industry. A quality and accurate valuation benefits all parties involved, and a good appraiser will complete the assignment in a time appropriate manner.

Commercial appraising is an intricate process and choosing the right appraiser to create that valuation is very important. The right appraiser will be forthright about the process and will want all of the available information. This in turn will allow the appraiser to return an accurate valuation that benefits all parties of the process in a timely manner.