Presentations

The people at Federal Appraisal LLC regularly speak and present publicly about real estate and business appraisal. Please see a partial list of our presentations below.

Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute
“Exuberant Bubble” or “Fundamentally Sound” Where are Real Estate Prices Going? (PowerPoint)
September 2005

IAAO Councils & Sections Public Utility Section
Reconciling the Reconciliation (PowerPoint)
Charlotte, NC, 2006

Millennials and Real Estate Trends (PowerPoint)

2009 Ethanol Bankruptcy & Acquisitions Conference
Creating, Maintaining and Measuring of Ethanol Plants (PowerPoint)

EMP Bahrain
Sustaining Growth of Infrastructure in Emerging Markets (PowerPoint)
Bahrain, 2009

NJCTBA Annual Meeting and Convention
The Appraisal of Solar Power Assets for Assessment (PowerPoint)

2015 Northeastern Regional Association of Assessing Officers Annual Conference
Assessing Real & Personal Property & Biz Intangibles (PowerPoint)
Portsmouth, NH 2015

New Jersey Seminar of the Society of Professional Appraisers
Go Dark Theory (PowerPoint)

The 46th Annual Wichita Program
When Obsolescence is Accelerating (PowerPoint)
Wichita, KS, 2016

**PowerPoint Presentations American Bar Association/Institute for Professionals in Taxation
Advanced Property Tax Seminar
Impact of Millennials on Industrial Real Estate & The Go Dark Hypothesis**New Orleans, LA, 2017

**NRAAO, Annual Conference
Impact of Millennials on Real Estate**Mystic, CT, 2017

**New Jersey State Bar Association Annual Conference
Borgata Decision! Appraisal Implications**Atlantic City, NJ, 2014

**PEI Infrastructure Investor: New York
Managing Infrastructure Assets: In a Post-Cheap Deb World**New York, NY, 2009

**Power & Electricity World: Latin America Conference
Creating and Measuring Value: A Power Plant Development**Coral Gables Florida, 2009

*Corpbanca Seminar Invitation*Fair Value Appraisal for the Real Estate Industry in Chile**Santiago, Chile, 2008

**The Pan Pacific Valuation Conference
The Effects of Deregulation/Privatization on the Selection of Valuation Methodology
23rd Pan Pacific Valuation Conference,**San Francisco, 2006

**Baruch College (CUNY),
“Exuberant Bubble” or “Fundamentally Sound”: Where are Real Estate Prices Going?**New York, September, 2005

**The Center for Business Intelligence, now Platts, a division of McGraw-Hill
Valuing Generation Assets – Employing Effective Due Diligence**Power Asset Mergers and Acquisitions Conference, 2004

**Methodologies for Portfolio Valuation of Power Plant Assets**6th Annual Electric Asset Valuation Conference, 2004

**Sophisticated Valuation Techniques – Theory and Practice**5th Annual Electric Asset Valuation Conference, 2003

**The International Association of Assessing Officers (IAAO)
Reconciling the Reconciliation, Power Plants and Utilities**IAAO Public Utility Section, Charleston, 2006

**Recognizing & Separating Real Property, Personal Property, and Intangible Values in Common Indications of Value**IAAO Public Utility Section, Milwaukie, 2006

**Cell Towers and Telecommunications Property**IAAO Legal Update, San Francisco, 2006

**Valuing Complex Properties, Power Plants**IAAO Public Utility Section, Boston, 2004

**Preparation and Trial Seminar (Mock Trial)**IAAO, Las Vegas, May, 2007

**Preparing for the Big One – The Trial of a $1 Billion Case; How a Complex Case Illustrates Basic Principles of Valuation and Trial Practice**CAAO 14th Fall Symposium, 2008

The Wichita State University Annual Conference on the Appraisal for Ad Valorem Taxation of Communications, Energy and Transportation Properties

**Preparing for the Big One – The Trial of a $1 Billion Case; How a Complex Case Illustrates Basic Principles of Valuation and Trial Practice**37th Annual Conference, 2007

**Rate Basics – Back to the Basics for Experts, Finding a Common Language**40th Annual Conference, 2010

**When Obsolescence is Accelerating**46th Annual Conference 2016

**Rutgers University, Office of Continuing Education
Brownfields: Emerging Issues, The Economics of Green**Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 2008

The Long Island Society of Certified Public Accountants
Understanding Key Appraisal Concepts:Â Methodologies and Procedures, and Capitalization Rates****Real Estate Committee, October, 2005

**The Society of Professional Assessors
Dark Store v the Force of Market Value, Big Box, Little Box and the Dark Store Hypothesis**Hasbrouck Heights, NJ, April, 2016

**Borgata Decision - Separating Real, Personal and Intangible Property**Hasbrouck Heights, NJ, April, 2014

**A Case Study in Complex Litigation: Wheelabrator v City of Bridgeport**Haddam, CT, November, 2013

**Appraising Complex Properties for Property Taxes: A Power Plant Case Study**Mystic, CT, October, 2005

**How low can you go? Cap Rates and Yield Rates Methodologies, Procedures, Market Cycle, and Current Issues**Rutherford, NJ, April, 2006

**The Institute for Professionals in Taxation, IPT, Annual Property Tax Symposium
Valuation of Electric Generating Stations Owned by Independent Power Producers**Austin, Texas, November 2, 2010

**Connecticut Association of Assessing Officers
Dark Store v the Force of Market Value, Big Box, Little Box and the Dark Store Hypothesis**University of Connecticut, CT, June, 2016

**The Appraisal and Assessment of Big Box and Large Owner-Occupied Properties**September, 2011

**New Jersey County Tax Board Association
Appraising Solar Power Assets for Property Taxation**September, 2011

South Jersey Chapter of the Appraisal Institute
Appraising Solar Power Assets

September, 2011

Articles and Publications

“Benford’s Law in Appraisal”, The Appraisal Journal, Fall 2018

“The Appraisal of Power Plants”, The Appraisal Journal, Summer 2014
This article won the 2014 Swango Award. The Appraisal Journal’s Editorial Board presents the Swango Award to the best article published during the previous year on residential, general, or technology-related topics, or for original research of benefit to real estate analysts and valuers.

“Options in Real Estate Valuation”, The Appraisal Journal, Summer 2013

Reviewer for the “Real Estate Valuation in Global Markets”, Second Edition, The Appraisal Institute, 2010, ISBN 978-1-935328-12-4

“Defining and Supporting Entrepreneurial Profit and Incentive, and External Obsolescence”, The Appraisal Journal, Winter 2010

“Relationships between the Overall Property and Its Parts, and the Three Approaches to Value”, The Appraisal Journal, Winter 2009

“The Energy for Change: Building Our Alternative Energy Future”, Property World, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Winter 2009

“Corridor Valuation, the ATF Method, and Maximally Productive Uses, Recent Observations from the Rail Line”, Right of Way Journal, International Right of Way Association, September 2008

“Correcting Property Taxes on High-Value Properties”, Unpublished, July 2004

"A Generalized Analysis to Determine Three Unknowns; Value, Real Estate Taxes and Real Estate Tax Recoveries”, Assessment Journal, Summer 2003

“Property Taxes, A Silver Lining”, Energy Pulse, July 2003

"Considerations for Valuation and Litigation”, Deloitte & Touche Real Estate Newsletter, New York, April 2000

"Reducing Property Taxes in a Rising Market", Real Estate New York, February 1998