Experience
A Focused, Experienced Practice
Shepherd Associates LLC brings more than three decades of experience to complex and unique valuation assignments, serving sophisticated clients across New England and beyond.
Properties Appraised
- Commercial, industrial, and retail
- Non-profit, institutional, and special purpose
- Lodging and hospitality
- Automotive-related and medical properties
- Multi-family and residential
- Development properties
- All types of land, including easements, takings, and restrictions
Clients Served
- Financial institutions and banks
- Attorneys
- Corporations
- Insurance companies
- Accountants and financial planners
- Trust departments
- Municipalities
- State and federal agencies
- Private individuals
Assignments Performed
Valuation Assignments
- Market value opinions of fee simple, leased fee, and leasehold interests
- Investment and owner-occupied properties
- Special purpose properties and land of all types
- Limited scope appraisals and appraisal review
Specialized Problem Solving
- Highest and best use and feasibility analysis
- Diminution in value assignments
- Contamination and marketability issues
- Charitable donations and title-related assignments
- Corporate property disposition and site decision making
- Real estate tax issues and tax appeals
- Estates, probate, and gifting-related work
- Rental values and market surveys
- Zoning analyses
- Telecommunications tower impact studies
Expert Witness Testimony
Qualified in:
- Middlesex Superior Court
- Norfolk, Middlesex & Suffolk Probate Courts
- Massachusetts District Courts
- Federal Bankruptcy Courts — Boston, Worcester, and New York City
- Massachusetts Appellate Tax Board
- Massachusetts Land Court
- Numerous ZBA hearings
