This is the Website for John C. Carlson Real Estate Appraisals, entering its 31st year of providing professional valuation services. Our office is located in Diamond Bar, CA which is approximately 18 miles Southeast of Downtown Los Angeles.  We provide both Commercial and Residential valuations in the following Southern California Counties:

APPRAISAL SERVICE AREAS:

• Los Angeles County (For Residential Appraisals - Eastern L.A. County)
• San Bernardino County (Residential Appraisals: Western S.B. County)
• Riverside County (Residential Appraisals - Western Riverside County)
• Orange County

While we still maintain a mix of Mortgage Brokers and Residential Lenders as clients for "typical" residential properties, our company specializes in the following property types or valuation services:

APPRAISAL SPECIALTIES & VALUATION SERVICES:

• Luxury Residential and Historic & Architectural Residential Appraisals.
• Industrial Buildings.
• Apartment Buildings
• Small Commercial/Small Office Buildings
• Expert Witness Experience,Valuations for Litigation and Litigation Support and consultations for attorneys, developers, institutional, government, and private clients.

Included in all valuations is what we have termed an Econometric Analysis (Click on the blue words to go to the section that describes our unique way of measuring market trends) Econometric Analysis uses statistics and graphs to provide our Clients with a measurement of the value trends the market area or market segment in which the property being analyzed and/or appraised is located.

This way, our Clients will then able to see both statistically and graphically how a market segment is performing. We utilize this as it  provides an excellent additional tool for risk analysis for a lender. For a more complete description of this excellent valuation tool, and to see the Sales Trend Spreadsheets and Value Trend Charts that we have produced, click here. 

WHERE'S THE BOTTOM??????????

The current Economic Chaos and declining prices has everyone asking "Where's the Bottom?" - how low will prices go. A very good appraiser friend of our company devised a way of calculating how low prices will have to go in your area before "the bottom" is reached. Click on the words in blue above oo to the page where the way to calculate "where's the bottom" is presented.

APPRAISAL DESIGNATIONS AND AFFILIATIONS:

1. State of California Certified General Real Estate Appraiser - Licensed to appraise all Real Property
2. Associate Member - Appraisal Institute
3. Associate member - Certified Fraud Examiners
4. Appraiser Member - Multi-Regional Multiple Listing Service (MRMLS)
5. Appraiser Member - Pacific West Board of Realtors - Southern California Multiple Listing Service - SoCal MLS

(Page under construction - To be continued and updated - come back soon)