John W. VanSanten is a Managing Director for the real estate practice within the Valuation & Financial Opinions Group. He has more than 19 years of extensive experience in real estate valuations of all types of commercial and special use properties, with a particular emphasis on healthcare properties. He has prepared and reviewed valuation and feasibility studies for litigation support, conventional financing, synthetic lease transactions, bond financing, ad valorem, condemnation, estate, purchase accounting, financial reporting, federal tax disputes, fair rental studies, and insurance purposes.
Mr. VanSanten has been qualified as an expert witness and has testified numerous times in federal, state, and local jurisdictions around the country. He has provided expert witness testimony in federal bankruptcy court and state courts in Delaware, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. He has also provided testimony for IRS tax disputes. In addition, testimony has been provided before several administrative hearing bodies including the Illinois Property Tax Appeal Board, the County Board of Review in several counties in Illinois, and before hearing bodies in California, Florida, Wisconsin, Iowa, Ohio, and Arizona.
Mr. VanSanten co-authored the valuation section of the Real Estate Taxation Manual for the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education. He is also a sought-after speaker throughout the nation on valuation principals and procedures and has spoken numerous times regarding the valuation of healthcare properties and other valuation issues.
Prior to joining SRR, Mr. VanSanten was a Director with Huron Consulting Group’s healthcare practice. During his tenure with Huron, he was retained by outside counsel in several lawsuits to provide valuation services and expert testimony. Prior to that, he was the Vice President for Real Estate Analysis Corporation where he focused primarily on litigation support including tax appeal and eminent domain cases.
Mr. VanSanten is a Member of the Board of Directors of the Chicago Chapter of the Appraisal Institute, the General Experience Sub-Committee and the Property Use Classification System Committee of the Appraisal Institute, and the Institute of Professionals in Taxation. He is also an Advisor to the Real Estate Club at DePaul University and a Past President of the Chicago Real Estate Council.
Education
M.B.A., DePaul UniversityB.S., Augustana College
Designations
- MAI - Appraisal Institute
- MRICS - Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors