Karen R. Peterson
Commercial Real Estate Appraiser & Consultant
Direct Line (206) 838-1243
[email protected]
Washington State-Certified General Real Estate Appraiser

Ms. Peterson has over 20 years of Real Estate experience in Appraisal; Appraisal Review; Market/ Marketability Analysis; and Real Estate Loan Underwriting throughout the United States and Canada, on Agricultural, Industrial, Retail, Office, Mixed-Use, Multi-Family & 1-4 Family Residential (specializing in Low-Moderate Income Housing & Tax Credit programs), and Recreational properties. She is a qualified real estate appraiser, currently licensed as a General Real Estate Appraiser (SCREA) in Washington and California; working towards her MAI designation, and an inactive Accredited Appraiser with Washington State Department of Revenue.

She has prepared and reviewed property valuations and real estate consultation for financing, insurance, taxation, ad valorem, acquisition of fee simple, leased fee, leasehold, partial interests, Indian Trust Lands, right-of-way, estate planning, loan servicing, OREO mitigation, and feasibility studies. She has underwritten equity and debt financing packages; reported on economic forecasts and market data; created financial analyses of income producing properties; performed tax litigation; property management; highest and best use, market and fundamental marketability analysis; external/economic obsolescence studies; personal property valuation of agri-business equipment, livestock, and feed inventories; development consulting; developed and implemented a national and regional lending institutions� appraisal and pre- and post-funding quality assurance operating policies and procedures, with an inter-active collateral risk analysis program for reporting and tracking findings; and a collateral risk analysis instructor and Subject Matter Expert (SME).