Jan Sell

Jan Sell has been appraising property throughout Arizona since 1973. During his career he has appraised property for almost all the major lending institutions, law firms, insurance companies, mortgage brokers, and governmental agencies in the area.

A large part of his experience includes appraisals of income producing property for various lending institutions, conduit lenders and life insurance companies. Mr. Sell is also an experienced real estate broker and property manager.

Property types include big box retail shopping centers, office buildings, industrial buildings, back office projects, hospitality related properties, Residential subdivisions, RV and Mobil Home parks, golf courses, and vacant land. Many valuations involve net or bond leases. He is also involved in the valuation of real property that is affected by detrimental conditions (contaminated soils, water, expansive soils, construction defects, and toxic substances including mold).

Assignments also involve large portfolios for estates, undivided partial interest valuations and the valuation of different types of property rights, including but not limited to utility, air and odor easements, investigative or forensic valuation services for governmental agencies and court appointed trustees and market research and analysis.

He has also provided appraisals, appraisal reviews, and consulting services for most of the banking industry’s regulatory agencies, including the Resolution Trust Corporation, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, and the Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA). In many instances, Mr. Sell has been called on to be the agencies’ appraisal expert in Arizona.

Mr. Sell completed appraisals on numerous parcels comprising a 6,800 acre portion of the Mohave Desert Habitat Conservation Preserve outside St. George, Utah. He has also appraised properties in the Superstition and South Mountain areas for governmental agencies and private property owners. Over the last several years he has also been providing appraisal reports, review appraisals and consultation to the City of Scottsdale. Many of the properties appraised included parcels of mountainous terrain.

Mr. Sell also appraised all of the property for the Bank One Ballpark for the Maricopa County Stadium District.

Throughout Arizona, Mr. Sell reviewed and provided numerous appraisal reports for property owners in which a governmental agency was the condemning authority.

Mr. Sell also acts as a consultant for legal council in a variety of real estate related valuation issues.

His years of knowledge and experience and confidence has made him a reputable and well respected witness.

Mr. Sell is a Certified General Appraiser in the State of Arizona, Nevada and Hawaii. He has also appraised property in Colorado, Utah, California, New Mexico, Wyoming, Missouri, and California Del Norte, Mexico. He is also a Property Tax Agent and Real Estate Broker in Arizona, and a member of the Commercial Panel for the American Arbitration Association. He holds the MAI (Member Appraisal Institute) and SRA (Senior Resident Appraiser) designations from the Appraisal Institute, and the CCIM (Certified Commercial Investment Member) designation from the Commercial Institute. Mr. Sell is also a senior member of the International Right of Way Association.