Strategic Valuation Advisors was founded by a former Managing Director of one of the largest property tax consulting firms in the country — to build something the industry has needed for years: representation that's actually structured around the taxpayer.
Charlie Young is the founder and Principal of Strategic Valuation Advisors. Before launching SVA, Charlie spent the bulk of his career inside the largest property tax consulting firms in the country — most recently as a Managing Director at DMA, Inc., where he led a team of 20 representing commercial properties across the western U.S.
That path was deliberate. From early in his career, Charlie chose to work inside the industry's largest firms specifically to learn the playbook from the best operators — and to identify where the legacy model was failing the taxpayers it claimed to serve.
After years of seeing the same patterns play out — flat fees on properties of every size, six-figure contingencies on minor corrections, and an industry that had quietly stopped competing on price — Charlie launched SVA to put a different model into the market. One that scales with the work performed, caps fees at an hourly rate, and shares the economies of scale with the people paying the tax bills.
Charlie is based in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, and SVA serves commercial property owners across the western and midwestern United States.
A majority of the largest property tax firms have been consolidated over the past fourteen years. The result is an industry with fewer players, less pricing pressure, and a status quo that hasn't been seriously challenged in twenty years.
Meanwhile, property tax has gotten more concentrated, more efficient to consult on through technology, and more lucrative for firms. Yet contingency fees haven't budged.
SVA was built to correct that. Two principles guide everything we do: scale should benefit the taxpayer, not just the consultant — and fees should reflect the work performed, never the windfall delivered. Every part of how we operate flows from those two ideas.
You get the same depth, methodology, and rigor as any of the national firms — without the legacy pricing structure. We've seen the playbook from the inside, and we've rebuilt the parts that needed it.
Our contingency rate decreases as a property's tax liability grows, and every engagement is capped at an hourly rate. Larger properties pay materially lower fees — and no one pays a windfall on a quick correction.
We're based in Colorado and focused on the western and midwestern U.S. — the states where we know the assessors personally, understand the appeal processes, and have the relationships that make a difference at hearings.
No hidden fees, no surprise invoices. Engagement letters spell out exactly what you'll pay before any work begins. We earn our fee only when you save — and we never earn more than the work justifies.
We offer no-cost preliminary reviews on every engagement. We'll evaluate your assessment honestly and tell you whether an appeal makes sense — and exactly what we'd charge if it does.