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Steve Williams, Partner in Williams Murdoch
and Chair of Williams Worldwide, is an internationally-known appraiser,
real estate investment consultant, litigator and educator. He began his
career in the late sixties with Donaldsons in the UK, before going on to
work in continental Europe, Africa, Australia, the Caribbean and North
America.
In 1983, Steve settled in the United States, becoming a Vice President at the national valuation firm of Landauer and then Senior Vice President at the international real estate firm of Jones Lang Wootton.
Steve recently sold Williams Appraisers, Inc., which he founded in 1994 to provide conventional MAI appraisals as well as specialized consulting and litigation support services. Through his work, Steve has become a well-known speaker and teacher. He is a visiting lecturer at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and an External Examiner for real estate Masters programs at MIT and Georgia State University.
A Member of the Appraisal Institute (MAI) and a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS), Steve continues to appraise widely, advising on retail, hospitality, office space, multifamily, industrial and special-use properties, portfolios and proposed developments.
Steve served two three-year terms (1997 Chair) on the five-member Appraiser Qualifications Board (AQB) of the Appraisal Foundation in Washington DC. After serving as the President of RICS Americas, he was elected 2005/2006 President (the 124th) of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. This 150-year old international property organization has 130,000 members in more than 125 countries worldwide. He continues to sit on the RICS Valuation Faculty Board, chairing the RICS annual London Valuation Conference for the past five years. His focus is the growing internationalization of the valuation profession.
Away from appraising Steve retells his old limey jokes to his wife and two sons while enjoying outdoor pursuits like swimming, sailing and hiking, as well as music and writing.
Alastair Murdoch, President of
Williams Murdoch, began his career in the eighties with Healey & Baker
in London, transferring in the early nineties to the firm’s Düsseldorf and
Hamburg offices before joining Bayerische Vereinsbank in Munich in
1993.
Remaining with Bayerische Vereinsbank through its 1998 merger
with Bayerische Hypotheken-und Wechselbank to form HypoVereinsbank (HVB),
Alastair worked in HVB’s Hamburg, Berlin, London and New York offices
before collaborating with Steve Williams to found Williams Murdoch, Inc.
in New York in 2003.
A Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS) and a Member of the Appraisal Institute (MAI), Alastair has advised on portfolios of existing properties and proposed developments across the UK, Germany, the US and Canada for a broad variety of European, North American and Asian real estate investors, lenders and developers.
After co-founding RICS-USA in 2000 to support US-based members of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and to promote the chartered surveying profession in the USA, Alastair served on the national association’s Board and General Council, and as President of RICS-USA’s New York/New Jersey/Connecticut Tri-State Chapter. In 2001 he was nominated to a two-year term representing the entire Americas region on RICS’ International Governing Council.
Fluent in German, French and English, Alastair has a keen interest in the opportunities and challenges presented by the globalization of the real estate industry. His own experience as both a provider and a user of professional real estate services in several countries and his active international involvement within RICS have given him a truly global perspective. This leads him to believe that effective networking and the strict application of ethical best practice can provide consistency, transparency, reliability and, above all, excellence in transacting real estate business across the globe.
