BETHESDA, Md., Dec. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Walker & Dunlop, Inc. and GeoPhy introduced at present that its appraisal enterprise, Apprise, has expanded its Valuation for Monetary Reporting observe group with the addition of Melissa Lofing as Managing Director, co-leading the nationwide observe alongside Managing Director, Adriane Bookwalter.
Apprise’s Valuation for Monetary Reporting specialty observe group gives actual property valuations for monetary reporting functions, together with truthful worth measurement for debt and fairness, internet asset worth, impairment evaluation, buy value accounting, and others. Apprise’s proprietary know-how, unparalleled knowledge, and knowledgeable group creates distinctive efficiencies that in the end save time for its shoppers. Apprise’s group of valuation professionals have intensive information of all property sorts and accounting necessities for each GAAP and IFRS.
“Ms. Lofing brings greater than 20 years of {industry} expertise to Apprise. We’re thrilled to convey her on board and are assured that her sturdy background in monetary companies will instantly profit our present and future prospects, notably on portfolio valuations,” acknowledged Ms. Bookwalter.
Previous to becoming a member of Walker & Dunlop, Ms. Lofing was a Managing Director of the Monetary Reporting Apply inside the Valuation & Advisory group at Cushman & Wakefield. Earlier than that, she was a Managing Director with KPMG LLP, the place she labored for shut to fifteen years. She has consulted with actual property shoppers in numerous industries all through her profession, together with multifamily, hospitality, healthcare, retail, residential growth, manufacturing, and monetary companies.
Ms. Lofing added, “I’m happy to be becoming a member of the proficient Apprise group and to leverage the agency’s modern valuation strategy to supply clear, high-quality valuations. This new know-how and platform will present useful insights to assist our shoppers meet their accounting and reporting necessities.”
“There’s an estimated $16 trillion value of economic actual property within the U.S. As we construct out our Monetary Reporting Apply Group, our valuation choices can serve a wider shopper base,” acknowledged Meghan Czechowski, Managing Director and Valuation Lead for Apprise. “With over 20 years of information and our dedication to digital innovation, we will present richer knowledge and deeper insights to all of our shoppers – and we will achieve this sooner than ever earlier than.”
Apprise, a three way partnership between Walker & Dunlop and GeoPhy, delivers USPAP/FIRREA compliant multifamily value determinations with unprecedented property- and market-level insights in as little as 5 enterprise days. Apprise employs industry-leading knowledge analytics and valuation software program that permits its appraisers to extra effectively and persistently apply valuation strategies in well-supported value determinations. Targeted completely on the U.S. market, Apprise presently covers greater than 40 states and is concentrating on nationwide protection by the tip of 2020. Cumulatively, the group has accomplished value determinations for over $70 billion value of economic actual property properties per 12 months. For extra data on Apprise, go to https://www.apprise.us.
About Walker & Dunlop
Walker & Dunlop (NYSE: WD), headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, is without doubt one of the largest industrial actual property finance corporations in the USA. The corporate offers a complete vary of capital options for all industrial actual property asset lessons, in addition to funding gross sales brokerage companies to house owners of multifamily properties. Walker & Dunlop is included on the S&P SmallCap 600 Index and was ranked as one in every of FORTUNE Journal’s Quickest Rising Corporations in 2014, 2017, and 2018. Walker & Dunlop’s 950+ professionals in 41 workplaces throughout the nation have an unyielding dedication to shopper satisfaction.
About GeoPhy
GeoPhy, with U.S. headquarters in New York Metropolis, helps lenders and traders perceive property worth and its underlying drivers. The corporate sources, hyperlinks, and cleanses conventional and unconventional knowledge, then applies superior algorithms to supply a singular perspective on industrial property values. GeoPhy’s distinctive strategy offers the {industry}’s most correct, goal property valuations and instruments that enable customers to develop a deeper understanding of the elements influencing property values.
SOURCE Walker & Dunlop, Inc.
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