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Hiroyuki Isobe is
the the chairman and founder of Japan
Valuers Co., Ltd. in Tokyo, Japan and a Founding Partner of
International Realty Valuation, Inc. He has been actively
engaged in real estate valuation since 1978, as a certified real
estate appraiser (Japan). Since establishing his appraisal firm
in 1983, Mr. Isobe has performed various consulting in regard to
city planning, project, feasibility studies, and market
researches on behalf of the public sector anddevelopers in Japan
during 1980s, as well as advisory services for U.S. real estate
investment by Japanese investors and standard appraisal
services. He has overseas valuation and advisoryexperience in
the U.S., specifically New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut,
Illinois, North Carolina, California, and Hawaii, as well as
Saipan. Valuation and advisory services have alsobeen provided
to the Embassies of the U.S., Peru, and Australia in
Tokyo.
Recently,
Japan Valuers Co., Ltd. has also performed the valuation and
advisory in Myanmar, Malaysia, New Zealand, Guam, and Hawaii. Since
the mid‐1990s, Mr. Isobe has been working for various
U.S./European‐based institutional investors for the
purpose of due diligence at the time of acquiring non‐performing
loans and distressed properties. He is one of the few Japanese
appraisers who seriously applied the discounted cash flow
analysis into the real estate valuation. After the real estate
securitization scheme came into effect in early 2000s, Mr. Isobe
has been involved in numerous appraisals of domestic and global
J‐REITs and private funds.
Mr. Isobe had
been a Special Lecturer with the Department of Architecture in
the School of Engineering at Nihon University for 27 years, and
had been a part‐time lecturer at the graduate school at
Waseda University and Nihon University for 10 years. He was
honored to be the first Japanese person to receive the CRE
designation in 1988, and has been a FRICS since 2006.
EDUCATION
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Waseda
University ‐ Tokyo, Japan (Bachelor of Arts, Economics
‐ 1974)
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Georgia State
University ‐ Atlanta, GA, USA (Master of Science, Real
Estate & Urban Affairs ‐ 1982)
DETAILED
EXPERIENCE
FULL TIME:
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2013‐Present
‐ Founding Partner, International Realty Valuation, Inc.
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1983‐1987
‐ Principal, HIRO & Associates
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1987‐Present
‐ President, HIRO & Associates, Inc.
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1995‐Present
‐ Principal, Real Town Japan (www.fudosan.jp)
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