After running his own firm, O’Connor Consulting Group for 30+ years, Brian O’Connor joined Cushman & Wakefield in 2022 as an Executive Director and has more than Thirty-six years’ experience as Market Analyst and Fee Appraiser. His Market study experience is concentrated in evaluating local economic conditions and forecasting future demand for multifamily housing and commercial space. Principal author of the Seattle Metropolitan Area Apartment Market Report. Since 1985, most of his appraisal experience has been concerned with commercial mixed use and urban residential buildings in Seattle, Bellevue, and Everett, Washington.

Mr. O’Connor, with support from his associates, has provided a wide variety of development feasibility analysis that was intended to solve for equity requirements, financial returns, and land residual values. Mr. O’Connor has also developed an extensive expertise in performing complex feasibility and investment analysis for multiple types of commercial properties.

Examples of the more complex properties analyzed are mixed-use rental housing, high rise condominiums, marinas, retail, and office properties, as well as historical preservation easements.

Mr. O’Connor as performed hundreds of feasibility reports, appraisals, and specialized research. His experience concerning the apartment market is extensive. This includes HUD appraisals and market studies, LIHTC appraisals and market studies, affordable housing market analysis and Opportunity Zone financial analysis.

Mr. O’Connor has been qualified as an expert witness concerning various commercial property developments in King, Pierce, and Thurston counties