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District 4’s Cheryl Koire – A Real Estate Expert

Cheryl Koire, a district branch chief in District 4’s Right of Way Appraisal Office, was featured in the Winter 2008 issue of the American Society of Appraisers’ ASA Professional Magazine.

Contributed by American Society of Appraisers Cheryl L. Koire

Koire is a certified general real estate appraiser and is designated as an Accredited Senior Appraiser with a specialty in Urban Real Property by the American Society of Appraisers. The society’s winter issue focused on appraisers in public service.

Koire credited the Department for providing funding for courses and encouraging her to pursue a professional designation. “Caltrans has been a place where I was given the opportunity to learn and grow as a professional,” she said. Over her 25-year career, she has worked closely with the legal division in litigation support and performs complex valuations, participates in regional quality reviews, and conducts training in appraisal technique and theory.

Caltrans appraisers, said Koire, “have a directive as representatives of the people of the state of California to fairly compensate the property owner [and] …we take the responsibility of fairly valuing property for acquisition very seriously.”

Koire, who graduated from UCLA with a degree in English, calls valuation in the public service “a tremendous career” adding “like fine wine, it gets better and better” each year.

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