Profile Overview
William Millerd James
Managing Director
Bill James is Managing Director of JRES Intgelica CRE based in Denver, Colorado, USA. Bill is a leading consultant in the fields of real estate, affordable housing and public transportation with extensive experience integrating advice for commercial and residential real estate development and management with a variety of modes of transportation.
Bill began his real estate appraisal career in 1973 with the commercial and investment appraisal firm of Shorett and Riely in Seattle, Washington and opened the company’s first branch office in Anchorage, Alaska. In Denver since 1976, he earned an MBA degree from the University of Denver in Real Estate and Construction Management in 1979.
In 1982 Bill started James Real Estate Services, Inc., a diversified real estate advisory firm with a foundation of commercial and residential appraisal, appraisal review, market analysis, brokerage and investment advisory services based in Denver. JRES assists clients with strategic direction and specific decisions for a wide variety of real estate situations.
As transportation-oriented development, apartments and affordable housing have become important segments of all real estate, JRES increasingly advises clients in these areas. As cooperation with the surrounding community becomes more important to real estate decisions JRES advises property owners, lenders, governments and community organizations with market and investment based real estate research and analysis.
Over the years, while conducting appraisals and market studies on a wide variety of semi-rural, residential, general and special purpose commercial and investment properties, in addition to general real estate consulting and appraisal, Bill has managed rezoning efforts, development and redevelopment projects, instructed appraisal courses, and arbitrated and managed property tax assessment appeals.
Bill is a Certified General Appraiser (former member of the Colorado Appraiser Board) and a licensed Real Estate Broker in Colorado. He has been accepted as an expert witness in several jurisdictions and has performed appraisals and consulting assignments on many special purpose and narrow market properties, and under unique circumstances.
Bill has prepared and taught appraisal courses at the University of Denver, University of Colorado, Community College of Aurora, the Denver Metropolitan Commercial Association of Realtors, and the Colorado Association of Realtors. In the Appraisal Institute, Bill was Chair of the General Appraiser Council, Admissions Appeals Board and the General Experience Subcommittee. At the AI he was a member of the Board of Directors, Admissions Committee, Regional Ethics and Counseling Panel, Appraisal Standards Council, Master’s Degree Program Subcommittee and the Board of Directors of the Colorado Chapter.
In 1997, Bill assisted in the formation of Transportation Solutions, a local transportation management association which encourages the use of alternative modes of transportation to single occupancy automobiles and transportation oriented real estate development in southeast Denver and served on its Board of Directors until 2019. In 2008 Bill was publicly elected to the Board of Directors of the Regional Transportation District in the Denver metro area. RTD is building the largest voter approved public mass transportation project in the county, known as FasTracks. In 2012 Bill was elected to the Board of Directors of Housing Colorado, the professional association for developers, lenders and owners of affordable housing.
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Intelica Valuation Services, LLC dba JRES Intelica CRE is a diversified real estate advisory firm with a foundation of commercial and residential appraisal, appraisal review, market analysis, brokerage and investment advisory services in Denver, Colorado since 1982. JRES assists clients with strategic direction and specific decisions for a wide variety of real estate situations. JRES merged with Intelica CRE based in St. Louis in 2021. As transportation or mobility-oriented development, apartments and affordable housing have become important segments of all real estate, JRES increasingly advises clients in these areas. As cooperation with the surrounding community becomes more important to real estate decisions JRES advises property owners, lenders, governments and community organizations with market and investment based real estate research and analysis. Over the years, JRES Intelica CRE (JRES) has conducted real estate appraisal and consulting assignments for a variety of institutional, governmental, developer, and corporate clients along the Colorado Front Range, in mountain resorts, on the western slope and the eastern plains, and occasionally in several other states. Appraisal and market study assignments include office buildings, apartment and condominium complexes, shopping centers, hospitality, industrial, mixed use, “green” buildings, single-family residences, residential and commercial subdivisions, and vacant land, both urban and rural. In addition to conventional types of real properties JRES is often asked to appraise or analyze unusual or special use properties. Many assignments require extensive feasibility analysis of alternative uses or eminent domain analysis and consulting. Advisory services include assessed value appeals and arbitrations, mass appraisal consulting, market and feasibility studies, development opportunity research, entitlements consulting and management, development and redevelopment cash flow projections, and development project management. Appraisal and market study purposes include mortgage loan underwriting and foreclosure, transaction support, eminent domain, estate consulting, and litigation support for insurance and other types of dispute resolution including arbitration. The Principals, Associates, and Affiliates of JRES offer in-depth experience at appraisal, review appraisal, site evaluation and selection, development analysis and implementation, economic and physical due diligence, project management, financing, marketing, transaction negotiation, and asset disposition. Brokerage services are concentrated in the single-family residential market in the Denver metropolitan area.
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