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LandVest Consulting
LandVest Real Estate Consulting helps individuals, families, corporations, non-profits, and advisors understand real estate values, determine highest and best use, and navigate the most complex ownerships with the technical and financial information you need to make an informed decision about the client’s real estate assets. With 16 licensed appraisers covering all 50 states, completing 400+ projects annually, we service projects nationally and internationally.
Appraisal Services
Real Estate Appraisal
LandVest is a distinguished leader in residential real estate appraisal, offering services tailored to property owners of complex and high-value properties, luxury buyers and sellers, and estate owners.
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Commercial Appraisal
LandVest provides independent commercial real estate appraisal and advisory services to fiduciaries, institutions, and professional advisors. Our appraisal team delivers rigorously supported valuations across a broad spectrum of commercial and investment property types, informing acquisition, disposition, financing, estate planning, and other consequential decisions where analytical precision, defensibility, and professional judgment are paramount.
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Land Appraisal
LandVest provides independent land appraisal and advisory services for landowners, fiduciaries, and their advisors seeking clear, well-reasoned insight into land value and use. Our appraisers apply rigorous highest and best use analysis that integrates market conditions, regulatory frameworks, environmental factors, and economic considerations to support thoughtful decision-making across the full ownership lifecycle, from acquisition and stewardship to transition or disposition.
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Timberland Appraisal
LandVest's timberland appraisal practice combines the skills of a large staff of seasoned appraisers, including several designated MAIs, with the experience and knowledge of LandVest licensed foresters, who currently manage over 2.0 million acres of investment-grade timberland across the United States.
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Agricultural, Farm & Ranch Appraisal
LandVest provides specialized appraisal and advisory services for farmland, ranchland, and agricultural assets nationwide. Our consultants include MAI-designated appraisers and active members of the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers, bringing technical rigor and practical insight to complex agricultural assignments.
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Government & Institutional Appraisal
LandVest can support appraisal and consulting projects for a variety of government and institutional clients. Our teams have valued a range of projects from municipal, public, and transit authorities.
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Real Estate Appraisal
While some buyers purchase properties with cash, many choose to finance all or part of their investment. Speaking with a lender before beginning the search is an important first step. A lender will help determine purchasing power, outline available loan options, and provide a pre-approval letter—an essential component when submitting an offer.
While some buyers purchase properties with cash, many choose to finance all or part of their investment. Speaking with a lender before beginning the search is an important first step. A lender will help determine purchasing power, outline available loan options, and provide a pre-approval letter—an essential component when submitting an offer.
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While some buyers purchase properties with cash, many choose to finance all or part of their investment. Speaking with a lender before beginning the search is an important first step. A lender will help determine purchasing power, outline available loan options, and provide a pre-approval letter—an essential component when submitting an offer.
While some buyers purchase properties with cash, many choose to finance all or part of their investment. Speaking with a lender before beginning the search is an important first step. A lender will help determine purchasing power, outline available loan options, and provide a pre-approval letter—an essential component when submitting an offer.
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Consulting Team
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Fiduciary & Family Office Support
At LandVest, we specialize in supporting fiduciaries, family offices, trustees, and institutions with practical, thoughtful solutions to complex real estate challenges. Our role is to simplify the process—defining the issues, charting a path forward, and ensuring every detail is handled with precision.
Clients rely on us for a broad spectrum of services, including valuation, estate and gift planning appraisals, alternative property use analysis, and global purchase and sale advisory. By serving as a single point of contact, we streamline decision-making and connect clients with the right resources at the right time.
With LandVest's seasoned team, unmatched market knowledge, and international network, we deliver sound advice, exceptional results, and lasting value.
What Our Clients Say
We are grateful for - and our transaction benefited significantly from - the focused, tireless, and wise leadership by Ruth Kennedy Sudduth in the management of the disposition of an important family property. Given the characteristics of the property and the local residential market, this was a far more complex process than we expected it would be but the team LandVest assembled to work with us was there at every juncture, leading the way with directly relevant experience, anticipating requirements, suggesting responses when required of us and addressing with sensitivity every aspect important to all parties on both sides of the sale. It has been a great privilege to have had the opportunity to work with Ruth and her team at LandVest.
Having bought and sold hundreds of thousands of acres in land transactions facilitated by LandVest, I can say with confidence that LandVest brings the utmost depth, professionalism, and integrity to everything they do. LandVest is a trusted advisor with an outstanding team of professionals.
Planning & Management
Trust & Estate Planning
LandVest Consulting advises property owners and their legal and tax teams on complex trust and estate planning matters. Our work includes highest and best use analysis, valuation for estate settlement and gifting, tax-efficient ownership strategies, and conservation planning. We help families evaluate options, understand financial implications, and implement plans that protect and transition legacy properties.
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Planning
Our team integrates land planning, GIS mapping, and appraisal to support complex valuation and feasibility analysis. Through focused due diligence, we evaluate physical, regulatory, and financial factors to test highest and best use, development density, and conservation scenarios. An iterative, in-house process allows for efficient analysis and coordinated implementation that balances value, feasibility, and long-term land stewardship.
Project
Management
Large and complex properties benefit from disciplined preparation prior to market. Our team manages due diligence and project coordination to reduce contingencies, accelerate timelines, and protect net value. We oversee engineering, environmental review, septic and well testing, and building inspections—identifying and addressing issues early to support a smoother, more certain sale process, regardless of brokerage involvement.
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Land Planning
LandVest’s in-house land planning and GIS mapping expertise provides a perfect platform for land-based appraisals and consulting assignments, where an understanding of the cause-effect relationship between land planning judgments and real estate economics is critical to well-supported value conclusions.
Litigation Support
LandVest consults with public sector, private, and non-profit clients regarding a range of valuation issues for real property. Litigation support includes preliminary highest and best use and valuations to assist clients with litigation strategy, including settlement discussion.
GIS & Mapping
LandVest offers sophisticated in-house GIS and mapping solutions for residential, timberland, and commercial applications.
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