The valuation team at New West Consulting has included Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology within our toolbox of analytic capabilities since the mid-1990s.

Over these many years, we have developed an extensive set of GIS-based, locational analysis procedures for use in market/site studies, consulting and complex appraisal assignments.

We find too often, that a claimed use of GIS technology simply refers to the creation of some presentation maps and exhibits; say for a planned real estate project, marketing materials or a zoning-change application.

A major hurdle faced by smaller investors, seeking to incorporate the analytic capabilities of GIS into their decision-making process, is just identifying those firms that possess both technical proficiency in advanced GIS software and in-depth knowledge of our local real estate markets.

Additionally, erroneous perceptions of high costs for GIS-based real estate analysis have resulted in slower rates of acceptance by many small-to-medium sized developers, investors and business owners.

Our integration of GIS mapping into our family of appraisal reporting formats allows KVG to allocate the fixed costs associated with developing and maintaining a significant in-house GIS capability over a much larger volume of business. Thus, New West Consulting is able to provide clients with exceptional market insight at costs that small investors and business owners can easily afford.

We can work with most of the more common GIS file formats, including  Shapefiles, TAB files, Tiger files, DFX, KML, GeoJSON, QGS, and GML.