Experts in Valuation of Ad Valorem Property Taxes
The real property, personal property, and business valuation professionals at Marshall & Stevens provide independent opinions of value for property tax reporting and dispute.
Our team of full-time professionals have experience with the valuation of assets and enterprises in a great variety of industries including agriculture, automotive, data center, energy generation and distribution, food and beverage, healthcare, hospitality and gaming, manufacturing and distribution, office, retail, self-storage, technology, and vacant land.
The scope of work for ad valorem/property tax assignments includes, as required:
- site inspections
- listing and valuing assets including identifying ghost assets
- reviewing assessments made by taxing jurisdiction
- researching relevant market information
- performing valuation analysis pursuant to relevant regulatory standards
- preparing and presenting reports for appeal considerations
- providing expert witness and other litigation support services for formal appeals.
For more information about how we can be of assistance, please contact one of the professionals listed below.
How Marshall & Stevens can help with Property Tax Valuation
Our Transaction Opinion team collaborates with our internal multi-disciplinary professionals to provide the value analyses and fresh independent opinions to fiduciaries, financing sources and investors for public and private company transactions.
Cost Segregation
Tax professionals across the country refer their clients to Marshall & Stevens for Cost Segregation of owned and leased real estate, and renewable energy projects because our analyses are based upon the most recent tax c
Estate and Gift Tax
Our in-house valuation, consulting, and litigation professionals are engaged to assist with wealth preservation, tax reporting, and matters of dispute. The specialists at Marshall & Stevens provide independent opinions o
Tax Valuation
The valuation professionals at
Marshall & Stevens are relied upon by taxpayers and tax authorities to provide value opinions of businesses, equity, debt, intangible assets, equipment, and real estate for tax...
Frequently Asked Questions
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Marshall & Stevens performs real estate appraisals for financing, estate and gift tax planning and reporting, buy/sell consideration, insurance, easements, property tax, and litigation.
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Marshall & Stevens provides appraisals of machinery, equipment, vehicles, and special purpose property for financing, financial reporting, property tax, insurance, and litigation.
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We work with our clients and their financial institutions, investors, insurance companies, and other trusted advisors to provide the independent value opinions they require.
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The accelerated depreciation benefits (tax savings) from a cost segregation analysis on acquired real estate (or just improvements to a leased space) can typically pay for a material percentage of the transaction costs and/or multiple financing payments.
The cost segregation analysis provides an allocation of a portion of 1250 real property assets to 1245 personal property, which may result in quicker depreciation of some assets on the property tax rolls.
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We perform onsite inspections of facilities to improve the accuracy of the asset records and the valuation analysis. Site inspections keep investors from capitalizing and paying for property taxes and insurance on assets no longer owned or in use (aka Ghost Assets).
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There is often a material depreciation benefit to stepping up the value of acquired assets vs taking them over at book value. We provide preliminary estimates to determine if the fair value step up of the acquired assets is worthwhile to the acquiror.
We also find that sellers’ asset lists typically include a material percentage of assets no longer in use (“ghost assets”). Cleaning up the asset list can benefit a buyer in numerous ways:
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Reducing goodwill
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Not paying for insurance and property tax on assets that don’t exist.
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Complying with audit requirements to have control of their assets.
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The Marshall & Stevens Difference
Marshall & Stevens provides Fairness and Solvency Opinions, valuation analyses, investigative accounting, and expert witness services to assist public and private clients with their important transactions and litigation matters.
Client Highlights
Here are a few client success stories from public and private companies we’ve worked with
Property Tax Valuation Contacts at Marshall & Stevens
Background
John Agogliati is Senior Managing Director for Marshall & Stevens Transaction Advisory Services, LLC providing Dispute Resolution & Litigation Support, Fairness Opinions & Solvency Opinions.
Mr. Agogliati has been in the financial valuation industry since 1998. He performs valuation analyses of closely held companies, financial instruments, derivatives, and complex assets for transactions, litigation, estate and gift tax planning and reporting, and financial reporting purposes in a variety of industries. He leads Fairness Opinion and Solvency Opinion assignments.
Mr. Agogliati serves as a valuation consultant and as an expert witness in matters such as business interruption, breach of contract, product liability, shareholder oppression, legal malpractice, and accountant malpractice, among others for matters that have come before bench trials, jury trials and panel arbitrations.
Prior to joining Marshall & Stevens in 2017, Mr. Agogliati worked in the valuation practice of multiple accounting firms including Deloitte, LLP. Mr. Agogliati earned a Master of Business Administration degree in Finance and a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering with a minor in Economics from Lehigh University. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA®) Charterholder and an Accredited Senior Appraiser (“ASA”) in business valuation. He is a member of the CFA Institute, the New York Society of Security Analysts and the American Society of Appraisers.
Professional Highlights
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- Member, New York Society of Security Analysts
- Member, American Society of Appraisers
- Marshall & Stevens, Inc.
Senior Managing Director, 2017-present - Anchin, Block & Anchin LLP
Senior Consultant, 2017 - Berdon LLP
Principal – Litigation, Valuation and Dispute Resolution Group, 2004-2017 - Deloitte & Touche
Manager, 1998-2004 - Fuss & O’Neill
Chemical Engineer, 1995-1996 - Ogden Martin Systems
Chemical Engineer, 1994-1995
Background
Patrick Craig is a Principal, Executive Managing Director, and National Practice Leader for the Real Estate Valuation Practice at Marshall & Stevens Incorporated.
Mr. Craig has over 30 years of experience in the real estate business involving valuation of single assets or portfolios, serving clients in the financial services, banking, REIT, insurance, legal, accounting, audit, corporate, development, pension and asset management sectors. His experience includes valuation and consulting for proposed and existing real estate projects and real estate portfolios including office, industrial, apartment, retail, hotel, mixed-use, self-storage, and community facility uses. He has also worked on matters of dispute including serving as a valuation expert in litigation.
Mr. Craig entered the real estate business in 1986. Prior to joining Marshall & Stevens, he led the Northeast valuation practice for Colliers International, while running the firm’s Portfolio Valuation Group and Business Innovation Committee and serving on the firm’s Global Leadership Team. Prior to Colliers International, he spent almost two decades with Cushman & Wakefield serving in numerous leadership roles including co-leader of its Portfolio Valuation Group, as Chairman of the firm’s Business Innovation Committee, and as a member of the Global Business Initiatives Council. Prior to Cushman & Wakefield, he held real estate appraisal positions at Dorman & Wilson and European American Bank.
He has served on the Board of Directors for the NY Chapter of the Appraisal Institute. He is an affiliate member of ADISA, a member of the Real Estate Board of New York, NCREIF, and the International Council of Shopping Centers. He is licensed as a Certified General Real Estate Appraiser in: New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Florida, Michigan, Virginia, Iowa and Illinois.
Professional Highlights
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- Board of Directors, New York Chapter, former
- Affiliate Member, Alternative & Direct Investment Securities Association (ADISA)
- Member, Real Estate Board of New York
- Member, National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries (NCREIF)
- Member, International Council of Shopping Centers
- Marshall & Stevens, Inc.
Executive Managing Director, 2013-present - ARGUS Software
Senior Vice President, Client Management, 2012-2013 - Colliers International
Regional Managing Director - Northeastern US, 2010-2012 - Cushman & Wakefield
Senior Managing Director, 1991-2010 - EAB Bank
Vice President, 1990-1991 - Dorman & Wilson
Associate, 1986-1990
Background
Greg Feldman is a Managing Director with Marshall & Stevens Incorporated and MS Capital. He is responsible for business development and client management.
Mr. Feldman joined Marshall & Stevens in 2010. He works with public and private companies and their trusted advisors to provide valuations of businesses, equity and debt instruments, intangible assets, machinery & equipment, and commercial real estate including cost segregation studies. Analyses are provided for buy/sell consideration, financial reporting, financing and recapitalization, tax planning and reporting, insurance placement and dispute resolution.
Prior to Marshall & Stevens, Mr. Feldman successfully served in business development and operational roles within a diverse group of industries including Big 4 and other international accounting firms, retail, consumer products, and printing.
Mr. Feldman has received extensive training in Sales, Sales Management, Negotiation, Project Management and overall Business Development.
He is active on several boards including Bloomingdale Youth Sports Association and the Tampa Chapter of Association of Corporate Growth (“ACG”) serving as the Membership Committee Chair.
Professional Highlights
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- Membership Committee Chair, Association of Corporate Growth, Tampa Chapter
- Marshall & Stevens, Inc.
Managing Director, Business Development, 2010-present - Grant Thornton LLP
Business Development Executive, 2010 - Ernst & Young
Business Development Executive, 2007-2010 - RR Donnelley (formerly Wallace Computer Services)
Regional Sales Manager, 1992-2007
Background
Anthony Festa, ASA, is a Managing Director in the New York Office’s Machinery & Equipment Practice of Marshall & Stevens Incorporated. Mr. Festa’s responsibilities include overseeing the delivery of valuation services to the Firm’s machinery and equipment valuation clients.
Mr. Festa leads asset valuations for buy/sell consideration, financing, insurance, tax reporting, and financial reporting purposes including purchase price allocations (ASC 805), impairment testing (ASC 350 and ASC 360), and Internal Revenue Code Sections 861, 382, and 704(c). Financing engagements include valuations for leasing and other structure finance transactions and bankruptcy/reorganization including fresh-start accounting.
Mr. Festa has served clients in a wide variety of industries including, but not limited to: automotive, aerospace and defense, broadcast and communications, chemicals, entertainment, financial services, food production, healthcare, hospitality, mining and milling, pharmaceutical, pulp and paper, restaurants, semiconductor, telecommunications, textiles, water and other infrastructure projects.
Specific to the water infrastructure industry, he has performed valuations for several Texas-based investor-owned water and wastewater plants for a transaction, a New Jersey township for a transaction, and a New Hampshire wastewater plant for financing purposes. He is an associate member of the National Association of Water Companies (NAWC) and has spoken at numerous professional conferences on the valuation of water utilities including the NAWC Water Summit in 2019.
He is an Accredited Senior Appraiser (ASA) in Machinery & Technical Specialties with the American Society of Appraisers. He has served in multiple leadership roles for New York City chapter of the American Society of Appraisers including President of the chapter in 2010-2011.
Professional Highlights
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- Member, American Society of Appraisers, New York Chapter
- President, 2010-2011
- Marshall & Stevens, Inc.
September 2022-present
‣ Managing Director, National Practice Leader - Machinery & Equipment, 2023-present
‣ Director, 2022-2023 - Cushman & Wakefield
Director, 2018-2022 - Alvarez & Marshal
Senior Director, 2012-2018 - American Appraisal Associates
Director, 2005-2012 - Ernst & Young
Manager, 1997-2005 - Lehman Brothers
Tax Accounting Intern, 1996-1997
- Valuing Specific Assets in Divorce, contributing author, first published by Aspen Publishers in 2000, updated in 2009 and 2013
- Valuation Strategies in Divorce, fourth edition (contributing author), Aspen Publishers, 2009
- December 2007, co-presenter in Greensboro, North Carolina to the North Carolina Department of Revenue on the “Valuation of Idle Equipment”
- February & March 2016, presenter in Washington, DC and Augusta, Georgia to the National Association of Regulated Utilities Commissioners on the “Valuation of Water Utilities”
- August 2016 and 2018, presenter in Denver, Colorado and Washington DC, respectively, to the Water Finance Conference on the “Valuation of Water Utilities”
- July 2018, co-presenter in Toronto, Canada to the American Society of Civil Engineers on the “Valuation of Water Utilities”
- October 2019, panelist in Nashville, TN at the National Association of Water Companies’ 2019 Water Summit on “Fair Market Value Legislation”
- Podcast interview via Soundcloud – Assessing and Valuing Water Systems
- ASA NYC chapter presentations including “M&E Valuation Concepts under ASC 360,” and “M&E Financial Reporting Audit Issues”
Background
Ryan Lucas is a Director with Marshall & Stevens through the New York office. He works in business development.
Mr. Lucas joined Marshall & Stevens in 2024. He works with public and private companies and their trusted advisors to provide valuations of businesses, real estate, and intangible assets for estate and gift tax reporting, buy/sell consideration, and financing purposes.
Prior to Marshall & Stevens, Mr. Lucas served for over twenty years in a variety of sales and marketing management positions within the finance and technology industries.
Mr. Lucas is an active member in his community and is currently a volunteer for Habitat for Humanity and B.E.A.M. (Beaches Emergency Assistance Ministry).
Professional Highlights
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Director, 2024 - present - J. Lucas & Associates, Inc.
Project Manager, 2018-2024 - Accenture
Deal Execution Manager - Financial Services, 2013-2017 - Fitch Learning
Business Development Executive - Americas, 2012-2013 - Refinitiv (formerly Thomson Reuters)
2004-2011
‣ Commercial Manager for Investment Banking, 2009-2011
‣ Sales Specialist - Investment Banking Team Lead, 2007-2009
‣ APAPC Sales Specialist (Singapore) - Investment Banking, 2007-2008
‣ Director, Customer Success (Focus Group Accounts), 2004-2007
Background
J. Fernando Sosa is a Managing Director in the Energy & Infrastructure Practice of Marshall & Stevens Incorporated. He is co-leader of its Chicago E&I region and oversees the execution of valuation consulting services to the firm’s public and privately held clients.
Mr. Sosa specializes in valuation and cost estimates of tangible assets and integrated projects/facilities both domestic and international. Independent valuation consulting and opinions are provided for buy/sell consideration, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and financings, financial reporting, tax reporting, bankruptcy/restructuring, feasibility, and matters of dispute including litigation support. He is fluent in Spanish and has performed appraisals for clients throughout the United States and for multinational clients in England, Spain, México, Panamá, Dominican Republic, Chile, El Salvador, Colombia, and Puerto Rico.
Mr. Sosa is responsible for the valuation of residential, commercial and industrial, community, distributed generation, and utility scale solar electric generation projects and portfolios, wind electric generation projects, stand-alone energy storage, microgrids, and renewable natural gas projects. He works with our Financial Valuation Practice on financial reporting analyses. He leads the valuation of facilities to qualify for repowering (“80/20 test”).
Tax reporting assignments are most commonly provided for compliance with Internal Revenue Code Sections 861, 382, and 704(c), cost segregation (MACRS) and personal property tax. Financial reporting assignment including purchase price allocations (ASC 805), impairment testing (ASC 350 and 360), and fresh start accounting (ASC 852).
Mr. Sosa has served clients in a variety of industries including aviation, construction, energy generation, entertainment, food processing, hospitality, manufacturing, medical imaging, plastic injection molding, retail, semiconductor, steel reprocessing, transportation, waste collection and recycle, water/wastewater treatment plants, and other infrastructure projects.
Prior to rejoining Marshall & Stevens, Mr. Sosa served in senior roles at Cushman & Wakefield, CohnReznick, and American Appraisal Associates. He started his valuation career in American Appraisal’s Public Accounting Service Group. He was employed by Marshall & Stevens from 2002-2005.
An Accredited Senior Appraiser (ASA) in Machinery & Technical Specialties with the American Society of Appraisers, Mr. Sosa currently serves as Chair of Membership for the International American Society of Appraisers and has served in leadership roles for the Chicago chapter of the American Society of Appraisers including chapter President in 2022-2023. He is a Member of the Royal Institution of Charted Surveyors (MRICS).
Professional Highlights
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- Chair of Membership Committee, International American Society of Appraisers, present
- President, American Society of Appraisers Chicago Chapter, 2022-2023
- Member, Royal Institution of Charted Surveyors
- Marshall & Stevens, Inc.
September 2023-present
‣ Managing Director, Energy & Infrastructure, 2024-present
‣ Director, 2023-2024 - Cushman & Wakefield
Director, 2018-2023 - CohnReznick LLP
Senior Manager, 2013-2018 - Alpha Power
Vice President, 2009-2013 - MR Valuation Consulting, LLC
Manager, 2007-2013 - American Appraisal Associates
Manager, 2006-2007 - Deloitte Financial Advisory Services
Senior Associate, 2005-2006 - Marshall & Stevens, Inc.
Senior Consultant, 2003-2005
Relevant Insights
Cost Segregation for REITs
Tax Valuation Opinions
Marshall & Stevens are relied upon by corporate taxpayers and tax authorities to provide value opinions of businesses, equity, debt, intangible assets, equipment