Walter Duke + Partners:
Florida's Proven Appraisal & Valuation Experts

Data-driven solutions for your complex business and commercial real estate needs.

When you need accurate insights and defensible valuations, trust Walter Duke + Partners. For nearly 50 years, we've guided clients through financial decision-making, litigation support, and complex real estate transactions in Florida. Our highly credentialed team combines deep expertise with a personalized approach.

Comprehensive Valuation Services

  • Commercial Real Estate Appraisals: We specialize in a wide range of property types, including office, retail, industrial, hospitality, and more. Our proven methodologies ensure reliable valuations for underwriting, risk assessment, estate planning, lease renewals, and specialized studies.
  • Business Valuations: Understand the true value of your business or your shares, whether for buying, selling, mergers, or strategic planning. We provide the insights you need for informed decision-making.
  • Litigation Support: Our expert valuations and testimony bolster your position in legal disputes, including divorce, bankruptcy, and eminent domain cases.
  • Market & Economic Studies: Gain data-driven insights into your market with feasibility studies, highest and best use analysis, and other in-depth research to support investment opportunities.

Why Choose Walter Duke + Partners

  • Experience You Can Trust: For 50 years, we've been a trusted appraisal leader in Florida, completing over 25,000 appraisals with a total value exceeding $100 billion.
  • Unmatched Expertise: Our team holds top industry credentials, including MAI and CCIM, and brings unmatched experience to even the most complex valuations.
  • Client-Centric Approach: We understand that your needs are unique. We provide personalized solutions, flexible reporting, and the responsiveness you deserve.

Client Success

How Our Valuations Drive Results

Challenge: Mast Capital needed to secure financing for a new commercial development in Miami.

Solution: Our in-depth appraisal and market analysis provided our lenderclient Ascendent Capital Partners with the data-backed confidence they needed to properly size the loan.

Outcome: Mast Capital was able to successfully secure a Miami-Dade County record $600 million in construction financing, enabling them to break ground on their project on time and within budget.

Challenge: Apollo Partners needed to secure financing for a new multi-family tower in Dania Beach.

Solution: Our in-depth appraisal and market analysis provided our lender client Israel Discount Bank with the data-backed confidence they needed to properly size the loan.

Outcome: Apollo Partners was able to successfully secure a $56 million in construction financing, enabling them to break ground on their project on time and within budget.

Challenge: Our client Sixth Street Specialty Lender was denied the opportunity to execute a contract to an industrial developer due to a ruling by a South Florida city board.

Solution:  Walter Duke produced an in-depth appraisal for client’s Bert J. Harris Jr. Private Property Rights Protection Act claim that supported damages of $81 million to Sixth Street and present those findings in a public forum to a special magistrate.

Outcome: The special magistrate overturned the site plan denial for 2.15 million square feet of industrial and the client was allowed to continue marketing the property.