About GREAC
Our Experience
Our senior staff have over 70 years combined experience in real estate appraisal, and hold the MAI designation from the Appraisal Institute along with graduate degrees in real estate and finance. We work with a variety of clients from individual investors to large corporations.
Our Services
We provide commercial appraisal and consulting services throughout the United States, specializing in group living properties: senior housing, residential treatment centers, multifamily valuations, market studies, feasibility studies, and rent comparability studies. We analyze individual properties or portfolios. We provide valuation services for tax appeals, estate settlement, divorce, government filings, tax credit applications, financing and for litigation support.
Our Process
Our appraisers are supported by a team of researchers and analysts which allows us to look deeper to find the property features that generate and influence value. You can be sure of the most accurate and supported results in the industry.
Who We Are
Michel Glower
Agate Valuation & Consulting
J. Paul Williams
Michel Glower, MAI, PhD, entered commercial valuation consulting from a career in real estate research and teaching. Prior to GREAC, Michel has experience in software development, banking operations, housing policy research, teaching real estate investment analysis, and complex property valuation. She also co-founded a real estate tech start-up positioned to move real property inspections into the 21st century. With her broad background Michel approaches commercial real estate analysis from a wholistic vantage point, identifying all aspects that impact value. Michel is licensed in multiple states.
J. Paul Williams
Agate Valuation & Consulting
J. Paul Williams
Paul Williams, MAI Retired is a real estate appraiser, real estate economist, home builder and serial entrepreneur. Paul has over 50 years of experience in real estate analysis and consulting including property valuation, investment, and home building. He has spent time at major lending institutions, Fannie Mae, and in private practice and has developed an extensive network of senior executives and officials. Paul grew his REAA appraisal company to 54 employees over a five-year period, selling it to an international conglomerate, “retiring” into residential home building in Maine before returning to property valuation in warmer climes. In addition to his experience as a real estate appraiser, Paul has been a real estate syndicator, buying and selling real estate assets for investment. He was awarded the SREA and MAI appraisal designations in 1980.
Agate Valuation & Consulting
Agate Valuation & Consulting
Agate Valuation & Consulting
GREAC has joined forces with Agate Valuation & Consulting, a minority-owned and woman-owned company located in the Washington, DC metro. Lead by Ericka Simmons, MAI, AI-GRS, MBA, Agate is changing the commercial valuation and consulting ethos with their focus on hiring and retaining the most qualified staff. Agate works to provide excellent customer service and superior work product in a timely and accurate manner.