James Gavin

Jim primarily focuses on real estate valuation and consulting for institutional owners/operators of real estate in the western United States. He has worked nationwide and completed international valuation and lease review projects in Europe, Asia and South America. He mostly works with owners of core property types on the investment side and special-use facilities on the corporate side.

In addition to core property-like office, industrial and retail spaces, Jim’s engagement highlights include special-purpose valuations in technology (data centers, clean room fabrication), financial institutions (bank branches), government (courthouses, military bases), entertainment venues (stadiums, arenas, racetracks, amphitheaters) and development land (master-planned communities).

Jim’s most recent work experience prior to Kroll was as a managing director of the real estate valuation and consulting practice at S&P. Before that, Jim was the West Coast principal-in-charge of the real estate valuation and consulting practice for Arthur Andersen LLP.

Jim received his BBA, with an emphasis in real estate and urban economics, from the University of Wisconsin and has taken advanced-level courses in statistics and accounting in the Master of Business Administration program at Santa Clara University. He is also a Certified General Real Estate Appraiser in CA and a State-Certified Appraiser in AZ, CO, Hawaii, OR, NV and Utah. Jim is a member of the Appraisal Institute (MAI) and Counselors of Real Estate (CRE), and a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. 

He is a past chairman of the Northern California Experience Committee for the Appraisal Institute and past member of the CRE financial committee. Jim is also a past vice-chair and remains an active member of the Tangible Assets Board for the International Valuation Standards Council.

Jim has also provided expert witness testimony and been deposed on a variety of real estate valuation matters, including leasehold interests, hospitality property, residential master plan developments and industrial property.