Our clients frequently return to us for updated values; they send us referrals
and often engage us on a consulting
basis for other business endeavors.
Our Mission & Values
Our Mission at SUISSELAND is to apply our specialized knowledge and unique expertise to solve our clients'
valuation matters.
Our Values
■ Credibility: we are committed to professional excellence.
■ Dedication: we put our hearts into our work.
■ Self-Motivation: we are trusted to do our work; we are expected to do our work.
■ Collaboration: we are a team of professionals with broad experience collaborating to solve valuation matters.
Independent – Our impartiality sets us apart from
our competitors.
Unique – SUISSELAND offers a wide array of skills to provide
the expertise you need.
Presence – Nationally, regionally, and locally.
Leadership – Our principals guide you to success.
Client Driven – We are here to serve each one of our clients and ensure your satisfaction.
UNIFORM STANDARDS OF PROFESSIONAL APPRAISAL PRACTICE (USPAP) SUISSELAND complies with all standards
and government regulations.
SUISSELAND is committed to adding value through excellence in all its relationships. Our goal is to furnish the right blend
of skills and talent to provide clients with the services they require.
Independent
To ensure objectivity and independence, SUISSELAND does not engage in any other activity that may conflict with the best interests of its clients. As an impartial and unbiased observer of the markets, SUISSELAND is able to collect and synthesize
data and commentary unavailable to less independent organizations. SUISSELAND prides itself on this factor, which sets it
apart from the competition.
Unique
By combining experience with its expertise, SUISSELAND brings unique and diverse services to solving complex real estate issues. The diverse education and professional background of our team members foster SUISSELAND’s innovative approach
to problem solving.
Presence
Our experience originates from a national presence and local perspective, coupled with regional expertise gained through
the completion of hundreds of engagements throughout the southeast
Leadership
SUISSELAND is led by a dedicated group of professionals with the necessary skills and leadership developed from years
of real estate experience. All of our appraiser’s and consultants are linked to one another by their commitment to integrity, competence, community, trust, and service.
Client-driven
Our clients have found that SUISSELAND is relationship oriented, focusing first and foremost on our clients’ and customers’ needs and delivering the highest quality product. SUISSELAND considers itself a learning organization and is constantly
looking for ways to better serve its clients
“Focusing in on your real estate needs.”
The SUISSELAND staff posses a wide variety of skills and specialties to offer you the expertise you need for your project or engagement. Our specialists have a variety of backgrounds, including real estate, finance, economics, consulting, investment analysis, development, valuation, computer science, marketing, and management. This enables SUISSELAND to efficiently
and effectively provide a wide range of services encompassing real estate research, valuation, portfolio services, corporate advisory services, and litigation support. The following core competencies form the building blocks of each SUISSELAND engagement.
SUISSELAND researchers collect a variety of spatial and capital market data through various means, including industry
literature, database resources, and interviews and surveys with leading institutional and regional real estate experts. SUISSELAND professionals explore the underlying demand forces in national, regional, and local marketplaces.
Demographics, employment trends, vacancy rates, absorption levels, and capital market influences are used to
understand the current and long-range characteristics of a market.
Once the research is compiled, SUISSELAND analysts compare and contrast information in accordance with client needs.
Using their experience with nearly every property type in national, regional, and metropolitan markets, SUISSELAND experts
then interpret the information and present it as appropriate to project requirements. SUISSELAND offers its research through customized reports and various standardized reporting methods.
Over the years, SUISSELAND has gathered and analyzed a variety of investment criteria. Online access to SUISSELAND
is available at www.suisseland.com.
The SUISSELAND website offers clients:
■ Ability to order appraisals online.
■ Advanced query ability on real estate data such as capitalization rates, yield rates, overbuilding risk, rent growth,
etc.
on a national and metro level.
■ Customized reports on all metro markets.
■ Access to economic and demographic data
.
SUISSELAND combines expertise in complex valuation processes with the realistic perspective that only hands-on experience
in property markets across the country can provide.
Our valuation skills are augmented by many years of experience with major markets, investors, and underlying real estate
market trends. We produce timely, well-documented appraisals that are founded in market fundamentals.
SUISSELAND valuations cover a broad spectrum of land uses and geographic regions. Our library databases enable us to access both historic and current information on every property type and market area. Because we interpret real estate dynamics from a local perspective, we are better prepared to value both small and large, investment-grade properties and portfolios.
Our long track record has made us specialists in such areas as:
■ Urban mixed-use projects where the combination of revenue generators is critical to success.
Unique or pioneering property uses where there are no local precedents for the project and therefore no local comparables.
■ Portfolio valuations involving multiple properties and often a variety of land uses in several metropolitan areas. We've worked
in every major market and are experts in understanding local real estate dynamics and portfolio synergies.
■ Non-performing or marginally performing assets where market condition competition, demand, and tenant profiles are critical. The ability to reposition a property and achieve better rents requires an understanding of the needs of tenants, as demonstrated by our market feasibility studies.
■ Development projects that require forecasting of future performance absorption, lease terms, market conditions, and demand. SUISSELAND has specialized in the valuation of large-scale land developments.
■ Hotel consulting and valuation which draw on the firm's long-standing presence as an advisor to hotel/resort developers and investors. Here, our experience runs the gambit from small motel-chain properties to resorts and luxury hotels in mixed-use projects.
■ Our appraisal process is designed to ensure efficiency, continuity, and appropriate standardization. Within this format,
the scope of services is tailored according to each project and to each client's needs.
Planning and Field Work
SUISSELAND assigns one of its principals to serve as project manager to oversee the workflow and maintain close communication with the client at each stage of the process. Our professional staff discusses job planning and organization
with the client. As a result, we understand the client's needs, expectations, and reasons for ordering the appraisal, as well
as the property's background.
Value Conceptualizing and Modeling
A SUISSELAND project manager establishes the appropriate valuation methodology for each property. Valuation analysis
and financial modeling are completed, after which the project manager reviews all market assumptions and value conclusions.
Report Preparation
In this stage, the appraisal report is written and edited and graphics are prepared. Before final production, the project manager thoroughly reviews the report for accuracy, logic, and uniformity.
With its expertise with independent real estate research, strategic interpretation, and analytic valuation for institutional clients nationwide and on a regional basis, SUISSELAND is well equipped to assist organizations in efficiently managing their changing real estate portfolios.
SUISSELAND’s capabilities offer:
■ Advice on real estate asset-type portfolio allocation.
■ Evaluation, implementation, and review of real estate
holdings and investment strategies.
■ Identification and recommendation of investment
opportunities.
Drawing on our vast and varied experience with real estate investment, SUISSELAND tailors each project to accomplish
the goals established by the individual client. Standards and procedures are developed and implemented according to the organization’s specific objectives.
SUISSELAND implements its state-of-the-art, web-based system to enhance communication, collection, and analysis
of valuation information for every property in your portfolio. This unique system provides access to physical investment
and economic information, including market rental and occupancy rates, construction trends, supply and demand factors,
and investment criteria for the purpose of evaluating each property type and market in the portfolio.
Based on this information, SUISSELAND’s experienced real estate professionals develop an appraisal management system appropriate to client requirements. Clients can use this information to benchmark results from an investment database. Timely market reports (static reports, customized reports, query reports, etc.) reflecting these findings are available based on portfolio requirements.
The primary advantage to this process is the streamlined distribution of portfolio information from property managers and appraisers to asset managers, investors, and other end-users. Users can quickly compare the performance of individual properties to others and to industry benchmarks. Another advantage to the service is that all current portfolio information
is centrally located and is available anytime, thereby reducing expenses related to the conveyance of information.
SUISSELAND advisors pride themselves on their diversified real estate expertise.
SUISSELAND’s senior management can
assist clients in developing overall investment strategies, which take into consideration timing, markets, and asset investment criteria. On an individual asset basis, they advise on financing alternatives and assist with asset valuation and investment analysis.
Corporate advisory services include the following:
■ Implementation of strategic investment plans.
■ Formulation of acquisition and disposition and
repositioning strategies.
■ Workout, refinancing, re-capitalization, and
sale/leaseback strategies.
■ Detailed cash flow analysis and performance evaluation.
■ Tenant representation
Clients deserve reliable information that is both cost effective and timely. Today’s economy gives customers options
to
choose from. But when it comes down to litigation support, there is no substitute for actual hands on experience.
SUISSELAND is committed to providing its clients with the best legal representation available.
As one of the most experienced and professional real estate companies in the business, SUISSELAND is trusted to provide
the support necessary for its clients.