Deborah Skeans

Principal, Managing Director and Senior Advisor for SVN | Imperial Realty. With over 45 years of real estate experience, she has specialized in the Lehigh Valley market, participating in the development, valuation, consultation or marketing of a wide variety of commercial, residential development, industrial, agricultural and institutional property for both the private and public sectors. She and her husband Darbin T Skeans, CCIM, have developed a number of projects in the Lehigh Valley, both for their own and for third parties. A commercial real estate appraiser from 1980 to 2000, she was one of the first women in the greater Philadelphia area to earn the MAI designation and created one of the region’s strongest commercial appraisal firms. She switched to brokerage in 1999 and uses her experience to assist the SVN|Imperial office as it helps clients build and maintain strong real estate portfolios.