Appraisal Services - United States (USPAP)

REAL ESTATE | BUSINESS VALUATION | PERSONAL PROPERTY

SUPER APPRAISERS®ELITE-RATED

Elite-Rated member of the peer-voted Super Appraisers® Global Network of internationally-recognized appraisal luminaries.

Prevailing in Billions at Trial
and Alternative Dispute Resolution

Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Only Appraisal Expert Witness Accreditation Service (EWAS) and Appraisal Dispute Resolution Service (DRS) Certifications in the Americas—one of only a handful of such Certifications in the world.

Appraisal Services - United States (USPAP)Valuation & Advisory Services

ASA | RICS | MAI | USPAP | IVS APPRAISAL INSTRUCTORS

EDS’ Valuation and Advisory Services Group values assets worldwide across industries and asset classes. Our discipline-specific and multidisciplinary valuers are internationally recognized and accredited ASA/RICS/MAI & USPAP/IVS (Red Book) appraisal instructors—all well-published Super Appraisers® Elite-Rated international valuation luminaries.

We specialize in providing appraisal expert-witness testimony and litigation-support services to attorneys and law firms throughout the world, and we have prevailed in billions of dollars at issue in some of the world’s most complex—important—high-profile—and valuable valuation-related litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution.

SUPER APPRAISERS®ELITE-RATEDEDS holds the much-coveted and only Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Expert Witness Accreditation Service (EWAS) certification in the Americas, one of only a handful of such accreditations in the world.

SUPER APPRAISERS®ELITE-RATEDMr. Siegler was honored to serve as the founding International Chairman of Appraisal Review and Management (ARM) for the American Society of Appraisers.

SUPER APPRAISERS®ELITE-RATEDPrevailing in billions-of-dollars at issue in some of the world’s most important—high-profile—and valuable valuation cases.

PREVAILING IN BILLIONS AT TRIAL AND ADRAPPRAISAL EXPERT WITNESS

EDS Appraisal Expert Witnesses, having prevailed at trial and Alternative Dispute Resolution in multiple multi-billion dollar matters, are highly-trained—highly-skilled—highly-credentialed multidisciplinary appraisal review instructors with decades of courtroom experience who master the facts and are able to present clear, objective, and compelling findings to judges and juries.

Appraisal Services - United States (USPAP)

We Value What You Do™

EDS Appraisal Services value assets across industries and asset classes throughout the world. Our multidisciplinary valuers are internationally recognized and accredited ASA/RICS/MAI & USPAP/IVS appraisal instructors—all well-published Super Appraisers® Elite-Rated valuation luminaries.

We specialize in providing appraisal expert-witness testimony and litigation support services to attorneys and law firms globally, and we have prevailed in Billions-of-Dollars at issue in some of the world’s most important—high-profile—and valuable valuation-related litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution.

Our Appraisal Services are provided by our discipline-specific and multidisciplinary senior appraisers holding international accreditation with the American Society of Appraisers (ASA) and/or The Appraisal Institute (AI) and/or The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). The ASA is the oldest and largest multidisciplinary appraisal—valuation organization globally, with some 5,000 members in 137 countries. The Appraisal Institute is a global association of real estate appraisers, with nearly 23,000 valuation professionals in almost 60 countries throughout the world.

RICS, with headquarters in London, is the leading organization of its kind in the world for more than 100,000 qualified professionals in commercial and residential development, construction and project management, brokerage, planning and finance, and valuation. Our experts include Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP) and International Valuation Standards (IVS) and RICS ‘Red Book’ instructors, former state and federal appraisal regulatory compliance officers, and Value Adjustment Board (VAB) magistrates.

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Our Valuation and Advisory Services Group is headed by Executive Managing Director Steven N. Siegler, ASA, FRICS. Mr. Siegler is an Accredited Senior Appraiser (ASA) and was honored to serve as the founding International Chairman of Appraisal Review and Management (ARM) for the American Society of Appraisers from 2002-2011. Mr. Siegler co-authored and directed the development and implementation of the ASA’s Appraisal Review and Management Principles of Valuations series of courses and best practices that are now taught to professional valuers, government officials, legal experts, and many others throughout the world.

When, as part of Dodd-Frank, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) acting for and on behalf of the U.S. Federal Reserve and all inter-agency regulators sought the expertise to develop, implement and monitor the new National Appraisal Ordering and Appraisal Review Protocols for the United States and all U.S. territories, it came to Mr. Siegler and EDS.

Mr. Siegler holds international valuation accreditation as Fellow, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS), and he is the only RICS accredited expert witness in the United States and the Americas—one of only a handful of such expert witnesses in the world holding the much-coveted RICS Expert Witness Accreditation Service (EWAS) Certification.

Mr. Siegler holds TS Clearance with the U.S. Government and he is uniquely qualified to practice before U.S. Government agencies in national security-related valuation and in other special matters.

Steven is an Elite-Rated member of the peer-voted Super Appraisers® Global Network of internationally-recognized valuation expert witness testimony luminaries. He has served as an expert witness valuer in U.S. state and federal courts, at international tribunals, and in valuation-related Alternative Dispute Resolution and he has personally prevailed in billions-of-dollars at issue in some of the world’s most complex—important—high-profile—and valuable valuation-related cases.

Engaging the correct appraisal expert is critical. EDS’ unparalleled level of appraisal expert witness expertise is recognized and appreciated in boardrooms and courtrooms throughout the world, and U.S. regulators have cited our body of work as “The measure by which all appraisal reviews should be judged.”

We would welcome the opportunity to bring this level of appraisal expertise to you.

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