Brent W. Maier

Brent W. Maier

Brent Maier is the national real estate advisory leader with Baker Tilly’s development and community advisory practice. He has more than 20 years of experience providing advisory services for real estate entities, property portfolios and complex developments to owners, users and investors. Brent has advised on numerous assignments of large portfolios for multinational and global engagements, having worked throughout North America, Europe, Australia and Asia.

  • Valuation and advisory services for a range of real property types, including hospitality and leisure, gaming, senior housing and office properties
  • Advisor to entertainment campus operator expanding into a new market. Provided advisory services around financial modeling and investment structure
  • Strategic assessment, advisory and valuation services for a $4.5 billion healthcare REIT related to a restructuring
  • Completed a valuation of a $3.5 billion REIT acquisition of an office portfolio for financial reporting purposes
  • Provided transaction advisory and valuation services on a portfolio of more than 400 neighborhood retail centers for underwriting a proposed leverage buyout with real estate worth more than $2 billion
  • Strategic advisor to university Board of Trustees to evaluate financial status of the University’s foundation’s real estate portfolio
  • Valuation and advisory of an urban infill development in excess of 150 acres
  • Strategic advisory to a real estate investor who owned a portfolio of healthcare properties related to a lease restructuring
  • Strategic advisory to an owner operator of a portfolio of skilled nursing facilities considering a transaction for the real estate

  • Appraisal Institute, MAI
  • American Society of Appraisers, Accredited Senior Appraiser
  • Royal Institute of Charted Surveyors (MRICS), member
  • Licensed certified general real estate appraiser in several states

Location

Chicago, IL

Education

Bachelor of Arts in mathematics; minor in economics

DePauw University (Greencastle, Indiana)

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