January 6, 2009
PricewaterhouseCoopers is the world's leading professional organization with more than 120,000 people in the 139 countries. The Real Estate Valuation/ Consulting Practice provides objective, unbiased, imaginative real estate counsel to institutional, corporate, government, and individual clients. The practice specializes in analysis of institutional-grade properties such as large mixed-use projects, office buildings, shopping centers, industrial properties, apartment buildings and complexes, hotels, resorts, and development land.
The professional staff is composed of highly qualified real estate experts whose background and experience include real estate valuation, acquisitions, investment analysis and counseling, urban economics, management, research, publishing, and systems development for various analyses.
Through its Global Strategic Real Estate Research Group, the practice applies a strong research-based approach, gathering and analyzing broad national and regional economic data in relation to the most current specific data germane to each assignment. Ongoing research into national and local market conditions and institutional investment criteria results in a constantly current understanding of the real estate market. Thus, the staff is aware of evolving trends before they are reflected in regional and national data.
In analytical work, the Valuation/Consulting Practice stresses market documentation and scrutinizes supply and demand factors, with special attention to the underlying demographic and economic variables that affect real estate. The practice draws upon detailed knowledge of major transactions nationwide and employs current investor-oriented techniques.