A New Firm With Proven Experience
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
Charlie Young is the founder and Principal of Strategic Valuation Advisors. Before launching SVA, Charlie spent 13 years inside many of the largest property tax consulting firms in the country — a path that began at Ryan, the industry's largest, and concluded as a Managing Director at one of the industry's largest firms, representing commercial properties across the western United States.
That path was deliberate. From early in his career, Charlie chose to work inside many of 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 size of the tax liability, charges a materially lower rate on larger bills, and shares the economies of scale with the people paying them.
Charlie is based in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, and SVA serves commercial property owners across the western and midwestern United States.
The Résumé Behind the Firm
The Industry Stopped Competing
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.
Four Reasons Owners Choose SVA
Big-Firm Expertise. Different Model.
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.
A Fee Model Built for Scale
Our contingency rate decreases as a property's tax liability grows. Larger properties pay materially lower fees — so a bigger win never means a windfall fee.
Local Knowledge, Regional Reach
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.
Transparent. Aligned. Fair.
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.
Want to talk about your property?
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.