Byron Bridges

Mr. Bridges is the director of the Valuation & Advisory Services Group’s Tucson office in the Intermountain Region and has over 22 years of real estate appraisal and consulting experience. Mr. Bridges is a designated the Member of the Appraisal Institute (MAI) Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS). Mr. Bridges primary geographical location is Southern Arizona. Mr. Bridges is also a member of CBRE’s Latin America Valuation & Advisory Team and has performed numerous international appraisal assignments.

His appraisal experience has been in the fee preparation of real estate appraisals, rent analyses, demand and absorption studies, and feasibility studies for a variety of clients, including numerous financial institutions, government agencies, Fortune 500 corporations, insurance companies, and private organizations. Experience involves a wide variety of property types as well as special purpose real estate holdings. Mr. Bridges has considerable experience with litigation cases.

Appraisal Expertise in Latin America

Mr. Bridges has conducted many appraisals, market studies and feasibility analyses of master-planned communities, condominium projects, land, hotel/ hospitality resort properties, residential properties, and commercial properties within and around the major beach front communities in Mexico, Costa Rica, and Belize. Mr. Bridges has extensive knowledge of the Mexico and Latin America real estate marketplace and since 2001 has been a property appraiser for high-end homes, condominiums, and hotels in Los Cabos, Cabo San Lucas, San Jose del Cabo, Puerto Vallarta, Cancun, Playa del Carmen, Tulum, Costa Rica, Belize, and has performed other valuation and consultation assignments in Latin America countries in excess of over 800 individual assignments.

Mr. Bridges areas of concentration include the oceanfront beach resorts of Mexico, Costa Rica, and Belize, and other Latin America countries. Within Baja California Sur resort areas, he has completed appraisals and consultation work in many areas including Los Cabos (Cabo San Lucas, San Jose del Cabo), East Cape, Todos Santos, the Pacific Ocean area, La Paz, and Loreto; in Quintana Roo, Riviera Maya, Playa del Carmen, Cancun, Tulum, Cozumel, Isla Mujeres, and Riviera Maya; in Jalisco and Nayarit, Puerto Vallarta, Punta Mita, Nuevo Vallarta, Sayulita, and Riviera Vallarta; in Baja California, Rosarito, Ensenada, and San Felipe; in Sonora, Puerto Peñasco (Rocky Point) and San Carlos/Guaymas; in Costa Rica, Guanacaste (Peninsula Papagayo), and Jaco. The assignments prepared were done for various clients for many reasons such as financial transactions, business decisions, investment speculation, estates, litigation, partnership disputes, divorce cases, easements, and others.