Craig Young

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Professional Experience

Mr. Young serves as an Executive Vice President in CBRE’s Valuation & Advisory Services (VAS) group in the Houston, Texas office. In this role, he is focused on expanding the reach of CBRE’s VAS business lines across multiple market areas. Business lines include valuation/advisory services for infrastructure projects (pipelines, transmission lines, waterlines, roadways, etc.), financing, litigation support, expert witness testimony, development, acquisitions, dispositions, and ad valorem tax matters.

Mr. Young has appraised commercial properties including, but not limited to land, single tenant and multi-tenant retail, residential subdivisions, single and multi-tenant industrial, churches, self-storage, convenience stores, restaurants, hotels, multifamily, manufactured housing communities, and office buildings. Mr. Young also has extensive consulting and valuation experience in the multifamily housing arena including providing market studies and/or appraisals for market rate and affordable housing communities in numerous states.

Although Mr. Young is an active Certified General Appraiser and Licensed Real Estate Broker in the State of Texas, over the past eighteen years he has focused primarily on business development activities. His knowledge of the valuation/advisory process is instrumental in matching the client’s needs with the appraisal and consulting options available.

CBRE Valuation & Advisory Services delivers accurate, reliable, and prompt real estate valuations across a variety of property types, offers expertise in industry-focused transactions and provides counsel on complex projects. Specialties include valuations and counseling related to real property acquisition, disposition, litigation support, expert witness testimony, and eminent domain matters.

We serve CMBS lenders, insurance companies, pension funds, investment advisory firms, corporations, law firms, private clients, developers, investors, governmental agencies, oil and gas companies, utility companies, midstream companies, real estate owners, and other professionals concerned with the value, use, and feasibility of real property. Our public sector clients have included various Federal, State, County, and City offices, utility companies, school districts, and water districts, among others.