CBRE Hires Director For Texas Property Tax Practice

CBRE announced that F. Scott Taylor has joined the company as Director and leader of CBRE’s Texas property tax practice for Valuation & Advisory Services (VAS), based in Dallas.

In this newly created role, Mr. Taylor will be responsible for developing, leading and managing the Texas property tax practice and a growing number of property tax specialists. He will report to Micah Beck, Senior Managing Director, VAS, CBRE.

A licensed Senior Property Tax Consultant with more than 25 years of commercial real estate valuation and property tax management experience, Mr. Taylor has in-depth knowledge of all complex property types and filing requirements, including renditions, exemptions and abatements. He has extensive experience in managing real and personal property portfolios using a network of consultants, attorneys and appraisers to aggressively pursue favorable tax assessments.

“We are thrilled for Scott to join our growing national property tax practice. We wanted an excellent leader to help develop our Texas practice and have great confidence that Scott will leverage our industry leading resources to build a best-in-class Texas property tax practice,” said Mark Whitney, National Director, Property and Transaction Tax Services, CBRE.

“Adding tax advisory to our extensive list of valuation services in Texas dovetails perfectly with our core business and will allow us to continue to create great outcomes for our clients. Securing a seasoned, respected and talented leader was essential to this expansion of services and we are confident that Scott is the perfect cornerstone for this rapidly growing practice,” said Mr. Beck.