Industrial Property Appraisals
How WestRock Performs Industrial Property Appraisals
The rapid expansion of transportation, delivery, and manufacturing services necessitated increased demand for industrial spaces. No longer just office buildings and retail spaces, industrial real estate takes up a great deal of physical and portfolio space. WestRock’s team of appraisers is known for its expansive knowledge and agility, generating accurate appraisals for multiple property types.
Whether you’re developing a new warehouse or acquiring a distribution center, an appraisal will gauge an industrial property’s value and appeal. Industrial appraisals, like the properties themselves, are not one size fits all. The zoning, furnishings, and even foundations for a warehouse differ completely from that of a flex space which has more utility built into it. Awareness of a subject property’s history and projected usage is important for an appraisal report.
By examining similar properties and their sale prices, the market area, and types of income generated by the subject property, WestRock uses a variety of analytical methods to produce a commercial real estate appraisal. With due consideration to its industrial usage, a valuation will address what distinguishes this property type from others in its appraisal report.
WestRock equips each of its commercial appraisers with state of the art valuation technology, a highly collaborative team, and thorough market analysis to generate property appraisals. Because of these assets, WestRock reports are accurate, detailed, and designed for a specific property type in mind.
Who Needs an Industrial Property Appraisal?
Whether choosing to buy or sell a property, proposing a tax appeal on a property’s taxes, or considering a property investment, you need an appraisal report. In each case, an appraisal is the natural first step for any developer, property owner, or investor. Through the analysis of comparable sales of similar properties, income generation, optimization costs, and the property itself, a WestRock appraisal report will provide you with all the information you need when considering your next steps for this industrial property.
Providing many types of reports (self-contained, summary, or restricted-use appraisal), WestRock specializes in producing accurate and detailed reports to better establish your property’s value, appeal, and optimization needs. With this knowledge, you can make informed investment decisions.
We value our partnerships above all. Whether seeking appraisal services on behalf of a client or for yourself, we are ready to help.
Each real estate property is different and WestRock’s prices are tailored to each appraisal assignment.
Contact us to discuss the details of your needs to establish your real estate appraisal’s unique price.
The WestRock Difference
You need more than just service from your real estate appraiser. When so much of what you do relies on quality real estate appraisals, you need experience, transparency, and expertise. That's what it means to work with WestRock.
Our Real Estate Appraisal Reports
WestRock’s real estate appraisal reports are based on several factors. Any institutional property appraisal will be a result of these three approaches to provide the foundation for this quantitative data analysis:
- Market Approach: A method that values an asset based on comparable property sales. Also known as the sales comparison approach, it tracks recently completed sales of similar properties to determine a property’s current market appeal.
- Cost Approach: A method that values a property based on the replacement cost of constructing a similar property, minus depreciation, plus the site’s value.
- Discounted Cash Flow: A method that estimates the value of an investment based on potential cash flows. Initial and annual costs, estimated income, and any holding periods are all variables used in this method.
Reliable market analysis is crucial for a trustworthy appraisal. Each of our real estate appraisal reports is meticulously prepared with your institutional real estate property in mind. WestRock delivers on accuracy and credibility using factors like:
- Area Analysis: Deduction of relevant market trends, demographic statistics, and economic indicators.
- Zoning Analysis: An in-depth evaluation of the property’s compliance with relevant zoning standards.
- Improvements and Suggestions: Comprehensive descriptions, along with sketches and photographs, to detail a property’s optimized improvements.
- Real Estate Taxes Statistics: This feature analyzes historical and current taxes to project accurate real estate taxes for the subject property.
- Comparison Data: Detailed photos, descriptions, and analytics of comparative properties are provided for comparison. A sales comparison grid depicts all data and any necessary adjustments.
- Income Analysis: Evaluation of historical data to determine a property’s projected income and its requisite expenses.
- Complete itemization of all income sources.
- Operating Expenses: We provide an operating expense history and anticipate your expenses based on our extensive collection of comparable expense data.
- Capitalization Rate Development: Residential and Commercial loan rate surveys provide a basis for capitalization rate development.
Experience Matters
When choosing an real estate appraisal service that’s right for you, it is imperative that they have a team of professionals with experience, education, capability, and integrity. We emphasize these values in our recruitment and training, ensuring that every real estate appraisal report generated by a member of our team can serve your clients’ interests properly.
The coveted MAI designation is held by appraisers who have invested a substantial amount of time in their own training to cultivate extensive experience in the valuation of properties from commercial to residential real estate. MAI appraisers go above and beyond to perform quality appraisals to advise clients on sound real estate investment decisions and Steve Romer is no different. WestRock’s president and founder possesses the MAI designation, demonstrating the efforts he underwent to excel beyond fellow participants in the Appraisal Institute. He instills that experience into every aspect of WestRock’s real estate appraisal operations.
An real estate appraisal service that boasts even one MAI designated real estate appraiser in their ranks demonstrates credibility, knowledge, and experience. Let WestRock use these skills to your investment advantage.
Pricing
Prices vary on specific real estate appraisal reports because of many factors like:
- Property type
- Size and complexity of property
- Property location and travel distance involved
- Ease of obtaining data in the relevant market area
- Scope of work
- Reporting format
- Turnaround time