About Burness Property Appraisal

Pete Burness is a Certified Residential Real Estate Appraiser with extensive experience appraising high-end, complex, and architecturally significant properties, as well as extensive experience appraising the homes of high-profile homeowners. Pete has been interviewed by both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal about high-end and architectural appraisals and has appraised well over 12 billion dollars of residential real estate since 2001 including more than 1,500 valuations of properties with values of $3,000,000 or greater, and Average valuations of more than $8,000,000 since 2019. In 2019 Pete completed $1,000,000,000 of residential appraisals in a single calendar year.

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Burness Property Appraisal offers Real Estate appraisals with an unparalleled combination of local knowledge, experience, diligence, integrity, professionalism, care, analysis, and research. 

Pete has extensive experience appraising architecturally significant homes designed by noted Mid-Century Modern, Modern, early 20th Century and current architects such as: Abramson Teiger Architects; Gregory Ain; Thornton M Abell; Anonymous Architects; John C. Austin; Barbara Bestor; Joseph Blick; Michael Boyd; Buff & Hensman; Buff, Straub & Hensman; Robert Byrd; Chasen Architecture; Kevin Clark; J.R. Davidson; Pierpont Davis; Domicile Design; Richard Dorman; Craig Ellwood; Robert D. Farquhar; Ed Fickett; Escher Gune Wardena; Frank Gehry; Irving Gill; Ron Goldman; Green & Green; Elmer Grey; Harwell Hamilton Harris; Myron Hunt; iD Group; A Quincy Jones; Stephen Kanner; Ray Kappe; Arthur R. Kelly; William Kesling; Pierre Koenig; John Lautner; Ricardo Legorreta; Hal Levitt; Leland Lewis; Marshall Lewis; Jerrold Lomax; Michael Maltzan; Marmol Radziner; Marston & Van Pelt; Marston, Van Pelt & Maybury; Vitus Matare; Cliff May; McClean Design; Scott Mitchell Studio; Ed Niles; Richard Neutra; Kemper Nomland; Lorcan O'Herlihy; David Ogilvie; Zoltan Pali; John Parkinson; John Pawson; RBK Architects; SAOTA, Rudolph Schindler; Rafael Soriano; Studio 0.10; Studio EA; Boulder Thorgusson; Urban Operations; Rodney Walker; The Warner Group; Paul Williams; Frank Lloyd Wright (consulted); Lloyd Wright; and Bernard Zimmerman.

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Pete is a member of multiple exclusive appraisal panels as one of only a handful of appraisers in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties entrusted with valuations of top-tier properties, including lender panels dedicated to properties with estimated values of $25,000,000 or higher. Pete has been hand-picked by multiple lenders to appraise properties with estimated values that exceed $100,000,000.

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Coverage areas: Western Los Angeles County/portions of Southern Ventura County.