Professional Experience
Diane F. Mazzatto is a Commercial Appraiser in the Hartford, Connecticut office of CBRE/New England. She has over 27 years of professional commercial real estate experience in appraisal, appraisal review, asset management, acquisition/disposition due diligence, financing and portfolio valuations.
Ms. Mazzatto has extensive experience in preparing narrative market studies and appraisal reports for a wide variety of commercial real estate assets: single and multi-tenanted office developments, medical-office buildings, neighborhood and community-shopping centers, power centers, mixed-use developments, market-rate and affordable-multifamily developments, residential and commercial condominiums, age-restricted developments, Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) developments, schools/colleges, industrial facilities, proposed commercial and residential development sites, distressed real estate and other developments.
Ms. Mazzatto combines her due diligence experience in asset management/acquisitions/ dispositions, with her valuation/analysis strengths in the development of each appraisal assignment. Her primary territory includes Connecticut, western Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
Professional Affiliations / Accreditations
- General Certified Real Estate Appraiser, State of Connecticut, License No. 995
Education
- University of Connecticut
- Major: Economics
- Concentration: Real Estate and Urban Economic Studies
- Real Estate Finance, Value, and Investment Performance (Appraisal Institute)
- Loading Capitalization and Discount Rates for Tax Valuation (Appraisal Institute)
- Introduction to Valuing Green Buildings (Appraisal Institute – online)
- Analyzing Distressed Real Estate (Appraisal Institute – online)
- Introduction to Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities (Commercial Mortgage Securities Association)
- Innovations in Real Estate Finance (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Risk Management in Real Estate (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Introduction to Commercial Real Estate Development (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Hotel/Motel Valuation (Appraisal Institute)
Significant Transactions
| Property | Type | Location |
| Blue Back Square | Mixed-Use (Retail, Office, Medical Office, Apartments) | West Hartford, CT |
| Bone & Joint Institute | Medical Office/Surgery Center | Hartford, CT |
| Copaco Shopping Center | Neighborhood/Community Shopping Center | Bloomfield, CT |
| Corbins Corner Shopping Center | Community Shopping Center | West Hartford, CT |
| Evergreen Walk Development Site | Mixed-Use Development Rights | South Windsor, CT |
| Farmington Medical Arts Campus | Medical Office | Farmington, CT |
| Goodwin College | College Campus | East Hartford, CT |
| Jordan's Furniture | Ground Lease | New Haven, CT |
| Ocean State Job Lot | Free-Standing Retail/ Tax Appeal | Wethersfield, CT |
| Park 215 | Mixed-Income (Section 8/Low Income)/Mixed-Use (Apartment/Commercial/Low-Income Housing Tax Credits) |
Stamford, CT |
| Residences at Steele Road | Garden Apartment/Market-Rate/New Construction | West Hartford, CT |
| The Crossing at Killingly Commons | Neighborhood/Community Shopping Center | Killingly, CT |
| The Hawthorne at Gillette Ridge | Garden Apartments | Bloomfield, CT |
| Various | Retail/Bank Branch/Market Rent Appraisal | Various |
| Whole Foods Market | Freestanding Retail | West Hartford, CT |
| Windham Heights | Section 8 Apartment Complex | Windham, CT |