Agri-Comm Appraisal
Welcome     Our Appraisers     Recent Projects     Wine Industry Links
Winery, Vineyard, and Commercial Real Estate Appraisals
for Napa, Sonoma, Lake, and Mendocino Counties
Appraiser Qualifications and Experience
David A. Holt
David Holt founded Agri-Comm Appraisal, where he specializes in agricultural appraisal. Appraising wineries and vineyards is within Mr. Holt’s area of expertise and competency as he has over 20 years of experience in the Real Estate industry, and 8 years in the appraisal of vineyard and winery properties. Further, Mr. Holt is specifically educated in economics, statistics, and real estate appraisal, and holds a Certified General Real Estate Appraiser License, which is the highest license granted to appraisers by the State of California.

Based on Mr. Holt’s knowledge of vineyard topics and values, he has been invited to speak to a variety of appraisal, real estate, lending, and industry support groups regarding the vineyard and wine industry, and has provided appraisal instruction and mentoring to groups and appraisers within the Farm Credit system while employed there.

The American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers, which confers the appraisal designation ARA, requested, and Mr. Holt provided, the Napa vineyard narration and values for the annual "Trends" publication from 2005 through 2008.

The Appraisal Institute, which confers the appraisal designation of MAI, requested, and Mr. Holt presented, the North Coast vineyard values at the semi-annual "Vineyard Valuation Seminar" in 2004, 2006 and 2008 held in Napa, California.


"Dave worked for American AgAppraisal for six years, gaining a thorough understanding of agricultural property valuations. We were sorry to see him leave to start his own appraisal company in 2008. When we need to hire outside appraisers to meet time sensitive deadlines, Dave is at the top of our list."
H.F., Sonoma, Senior Appraiser, Lender


Robert J. Miele
Robert Miele's education in real estate appraisal, business management, information systems, marketing and sales, viticulture, and real estate sales prepared him for the appraisal profession. He has over 5 years of experience in the Real Estate industry and 3 years in the appraisal of commercial and agricultural/vineyard properties. Robert holds Certified General Real Estate Appraiser License Number AG040407.

He is currently implementing a sales database for Agri-Comm Appraisal. His experience with system administration, database engineering, and software development promise a top quality database tool. The goal is "Whole Market Valuation" by creating a web productivity tool that integrates the sales database with multiple regression tools for analysis and tests for reasonableness.

A 15-year career with Agilent Technologies and Hewlett-Packard as an R&D Software Engineer included the design and development of E-commerce Web tools, Integrated CAD tools, and Test/Measurement products. Mr. Miele received the Star Award from Hewlett-Packard for his work on the flexible database schema, which provided the ability to add new categories of parts and entities without expensive schema/software change releases. He is leveraging this concept for the implementation of Agri-Comm Appraisal's "Whole Market Valuation" process.

He is the proud owner of a Sonoma County rural home with equestrian facilities and a Russian River Valley AVA Pinot Noir vineyard with three bottled vintages under his belt.

*   *   *   *
More information about appraiser certification and standards

California Office of Real Estate Appraisers
.. is the state agency responsible for appraiser certification and licensing.

The Appraisal Foundation
.. is a non-profit association of appraisal organizations that helps oversee the appraisal profession within the United States. In 1989, it created the "Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice", which are the primary quality-control guidelines used by professional appraisers for most categories of appraisal performed in the U.S.

Quality Appraisals, Thorough Communication,
Timely Response, Best Technology, Great Staff


Agri-Comm Appraisal
130 S. Cloverdale Blvd
Cloverdale, CA  95425
             707-894-9576
707-486-7390 (cell)
daveholt@agri-comm.net