When an asset is too complicated for traditional valuation, that's where we add value.
When a dispute, estate, or IRS matter turns on the value of an unusual asset.
When tax and transaction planning depends on defensible asset values.
When the collateral — or the deal — is more than land and buildings.
These assets combine real estate, equipment, operating businesses, permits, and regulatory risk. We analyze them as they actually operate.
It looks like land. The value is in permits, reserves, entitlements, and scarcity — not the dirt.
The real estate appraisal financed the building and missed the machine that makes the money.
Contamination reads as pure liability. Priced right, remediation is where the upside lives.
Landfills, ports, water, energy — unglamorous assets with scarcity economics and durable demand.
The IRS created a permanent Office of Conservation Easements and ended its settlement program in the same release. Over 1,100 open cases, a 5% to 7% baseline, a 40% penalty — and five ways a deduction dies before anyone opens the appraisal.
Read →A $41.6 million deduction resting on two core holes. Nine decided cases, read in the order a valuation actually gets built — and the six places the courts keep stopping.
Read →A claim over $820,000 that produced a deduction of zero. The before-and-after standard, what changed for 2026, and what has to exist in the file before a casualty loss number goes on a return.
Read →Weekly. The assets beyond office, retail, industrial, and multifamily — and the business, legal, and investment questions they raise.
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