As head of living sectors for Cushman & Wakefield's Valuation & Advisory business, Zach Bowyer, MAI, MRICS supports a team of over 130 professionals located throughout the U.S. His primary focus is driving growth initiatives through the advancement of client care, data analytics, product development and talent recruitment. Property types covered include apartments, BTR, affordable, manufactured housing, self-storage, co-living/student housing and senior living.

With nearly twenty years of industry experience, Zach has completed over $150 billion in third-party valuation assignments throughout the U.S. Services provided include third-party market valuations, underwriting due-diligence, Net Asset Valuations (NAV) for non-traded REITs, market studies, and feasibility analyses of single assets to large portfolio transactions.

Zach began his professional career in commercial real estate banking with First National Bank and in 2004, he began specializing exclusively in the appraisal of seniors housing real estate. Zach joined CBRE in 2012 to launch a seniors housing & healthcare specialty practice and most recently was at JLL where he established their alternative real estate sectors for valuation advisory.

Zach is a regular panel contributor at major industry events such as Mortgage Bankers Association, the Appraisal Institute, ULI, NCREIF and NIC. He was recently named in the 2024 George L. Schmutz Award by the Appraisal Institute for his peer review of the book, The Appraisal of Senior Housing & Nursing Care Properties, and has published numerous white papers on various Living Sector property types.