Chris Carneghi, MAI

Carneghi and Partners

1602 The Alameda, Suite 103

San Jose, CA 95126

408-535-0900 x 113

[email protected]

Chris Carneghi is a commercial real estate appraiser with more than 30 years experience in the San Francisco Bay Area including Silicon Valley. He is a Member of the Appraisal Institute (MAI) and is licensed as a California Certified General Real Estate appraiser.

His areas of expertise include arbitration and expert witness testimony.

He has extensive experience in appraising for condemnations, rental and other appraisal valuation disputes and property tax assessment appeals. Valuation of leasehold and leased fee  interests are areas of expertise.

Mr. Carneghi frequently provides litigation support and has provided testimony as an expert witness in court and in private arbitration proceedings. He has often acted as either a neutral or party arbitrator in resolving matters of real estate values, rents and related issues. He has been qualified as a real estate appraisal expert and provided testimony in all Bay Area California Superior Courts and in Federal United States Bankruptcy Court. He has been qualified as a real estate expert and testified in Federal Tax Court, in California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) hearings and in hearings conducted at the American Arbitration Association (AAA) and Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Service (JAMS) in various locations. He has also testified in Hawaii concerning ground lease issues.