SENCER appraises industrial, commercial and institutional machinery and equipment, both here and abroad. Our reports are used for insurance, financing, privatization, and property transfers.

Innovative Experts
Accredited senior members of the American Society of Appraisers, our appraisers pride themselves on prompt and innovative solutions to asset valuation problems. We appraise construction, communication, hospital, office, and transportation equipment, as well as machine shops, refineries, and other processing facilities. Our expert opinions are used by business owners, buyers, sellers, bankers, and portfolio managers alike.

Top Management
Our President, Bernard M. Sencer, AAA, ASA served two terms as International Treasurer of the Appraisers Association of America and is also a two-term past Regional Governor of the American Society of Appraisers. A member of the the Auctioneers Association, Inc. and a past panelist for the American Arbitration Association, Mr. Sencer has also been a consultant to the U.S. Treasury Dept., the F.D.I.C., the N.Y. State Insurance Dept. and the G.S.A., among other federal, state, and municipal agencies. He is frequently asked to testify as an expert witness by courts ranging from housing and county courts, to the N.Y. State Supreme Court, and to the U.S. Federal and Bankruptcy Courts. (Mr. Sencer's full curriculum vitae is available in PDF format.)

Our Services
REPORTS.  Sencer provides field appraisals, desktop opinions, collateral evaluations, and inspections related to transfers of ownership, finance and leasing, insurance, liquidation, arbitration, ad valoreum (property tax), eminent domain, charitable contributions, and estate planning.

EQUIPMENT.  We appraise metalworking, plastics, construction, chemical, woodworking, textile, food processing and restaurant, printing, rubber, machine shop, steel mill and foundry machinery and equipment as well as medical and computer equipment, furniture and fixtures — and more.

REASONS.  Businessmen, bankers, brokers and other decision makers look to Sencer for accurate, timely appraisals for mergers, acquisitions, partnership buyouts, business dissolutions, auctions, sales of surplus capacity, inventory liquidation, litigation, and to establish asset-based lines of credit.

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