New York

CONTACT INFORMATION

Name: 
David Wilkes
Title: 
Founding Partner
Company: 
Huff Wilkes and Cavallaro, L.L.P.
Company Website: 
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Address: 
200 White Plains Road
City: 
Tarrytown
State: 
New York
Zip: 
10591
Telephone: 
914-631-1500
Fax: 
914-631-1501
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SPEECHES & PUBLICATIONS

Speeches & Publications: 


The Influence of Globalization on Managing a Global Portfolio, Lecturer and Program Chair, International Property Tax Institute, University of Southern California’s Lusk Center and The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Los Angeles, April 29, 2008.

 

Understanding REIT Transactions and Their Relationship to Market Value, Lecturer, International Property Tax Institute’s 2nd Annual Mass Appraisal Symposium, Toronto, ON, May 8, 2007.

 

Who’s Running the Show? Implementing Centralized Management of Property Taxes for a Global Portfolio, “Real Estate Issues” (Counselors of Real Estate’s Quarterly Journal), Spring 2007.

 

Management of Property Taxes in a Global Environment, Lecturer, International Property Tax Institute and New York University’s Real Estate Institute, New York City, May 3, 2007.

 

Bottom-Up or Top-Down? Solving the Global Property Tax Management Dilemma, Luncheon Speaker, Institute for Professionals in Taxation, Pittsburgh, PA, March 22, 2007.

 

Guest Editor, Government, Law & Policy Journal (New York State Bar Assoc.), Eminent Domain Special Issue, Spring 2007 (Vol. 9, No. 1), and Author of Compensating for the Loss of Business Value as a Result of Condemnation.

 

Understanding REIT Transactions and Their Relationship to Market Value, Lecturer, Property Tax Symposium, Institute for Professionals in Taxation (IPT), Colorado Springs, CO, November 7, 2006.

 

Paper Presentation: Management of Property Taxes in a Global Environment, Annual Conference of the UK’s Institute of Revenues Rating & Valuation (IRRV), England, October 12, 2006.

PROFILE

NAPTA Charter Member

David Wilkes is a U.S. and international real estate advisor. He is a designated “Counselor of Real Estate,” and is also a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (UK). Further, David is President of the United States office of AEC International, a consulting firm that provides global property tax assessment management services and technology.

 

Mr. Wilkes has served as a Senior Real Estate Advisor in emerging markets on behalf of the U.S. government, including the Middle East and Eastern Europe. David is the elected Vice Chairman of the Board of The Appraisal Foundation in Washington, D.C., a member of its Board of Trustees, and Chairman of the Foundation's Oversight Committee. The Appraisal Foundation is the Congressionally-authorized source of U.S. appraisal standards and appraiser qualifications. He is also a Member of the Board of Directors of the Counselors of Real Estate’s New York Chapter.

 

David is a prolific writer and speaker dedicated to education, reform, and participation in discussions of current real estate law and legislation. He is Editor-in-Chief of the New York State Bar Association Journal, a monthly lawyers’ magazine with 74,000 readers, and he served for six years as Editor-in-Chief of Real Estate Review, an academic quarterly published by NYU’s Real Estate Institute. He is also a chapter author for several books on taxation and eminent domain, and has published numerous articles and papers on law and tax for professional publications.

 

Mr. Wilkes is a founding and active member of the Corporate Advisory Council of the International Property Tax Institute (IPTI) and is IPTI’s representative to the New York City Tax Commission’s Advisory Board; he is also Chair of the American Bar Association’s Property Tax Committee; Co-Chair of the Westchester County Bar’s Tax Certiorari & Condemnation Committee; and a Member of the International Association of Assessing Officers’ Legal Committee.

 

Areas of Practice

Property Tax and Assessment

Eminent Domain; Emerging Market Property Rights

Development of Mortgage Finance and Property Tax Infrastructure in Emerging

Markets; and Real Estate Litigation.

 

 

Education

J.D. BostonUniversitySchool of Law

M.S. New YorkUniversity’s Real Estate Institute (Valuation Concentration) Honors: Norman Weinberg Prize for Excellence

B.A. CityUniversity of New York, BaruchCollege

 

Bar Admissions

New York

 

 

 

 

United States Supreme Court

 

Honors and Awards

Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors

International Association of Assessing Officers’ Distinguished Real Estate Research and Development Award

Received for analysis of Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) valuation issues

Counselors of Real Estate’s Ballard Award for Best Article, 2005
Received for “Detecting Intangible Asset Value (or Capitalized Economic Profit) in Sales to REITs: A Practical Framework for Analysis”

 

Professional Associations and Memberships

Counselors of Real Estate, Designated Member (CRE)

Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Designated Fellow (FRICS)

New York State Bar Association, Editor-in-Chief: NYSBA Journal

American Bar Association Real Property Section: Condemnation Committee

American Bar Association Real Property Section: Property Tax Committee, Chair

International Association of Assessing Officers (IAAO), Legal Committee

International Property Tax Institute Corporate, Advisory Council

Advisory Board to the New York City Tax Commission President

Westchester County Association

Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

The Appraisal Foundation, Trustee

 

 

 

 

U.S. District Court; all New York Districts

 

Colorado