James Finlay

In addition to managing and reviewing appraisals and a wide variety of commercial property types, he is also the primary appraisal manager for LEED designed and high performance real estate collateral. These valuations can also include solar photovoltaic arrays and other types of on-site distributed power systems. Since early 2006 he has been the appraisal/valuation representative of the bank’s Environmental Initiative Team. To date Wells Fargo has extended over $3.25 billion to high performance / “green” real estate. Prior to being an appraiser he was a commercial leasing and sales agent based in Santa Monica for a total more than 20 years in commercial real estate. He currently chairs the USGBC LA Chapter’s Commercial Real Estate & Finance subcommittee and holds a B.A in Mechanical Engineering and Economics at the University of Kentucky, is a General Certified Appraiser, and has a CA Real Estate Sales license.