TONY CORREIA, ARA, MRICS 

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Tony Correia is an Accredited Rural Appraiser specializing in the valuation of  vineyards and wineries, and all other wine related real estate. He also values undivided interests in real property, water rights, and large, complex, agricultural properties, and provides expert witness testimony in litigations. He is the former president of Correia - Xavier, Inc., and is an instructor of appraisal courses and seminars throughout the nation and Mexico, and is also a frequent public speaker on agricultural, appraisal, taxation, and estate planning issues, and the vineyard and wine industries. He has been a guest speaker for many organizations, including the American Bar Association, the Appraisal Institute, the American Society of Appraisers, the Land Trust Alliance, the California CPA Education Foundation, and many institutions of higher education. Tony is also qualified as an Expert Witness in many courts, a member and past chairman of the Fresno County Tax Assessment Appeals Board, a past President of the California Chapter of the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers, and past president of Chapter 50 of the International Right of Way Association. He is also a Professional Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

Tony has extensive experience in appraisal of vineyards and wineries, having been professionaly engaged in such appraisals for thirty years. He has also planted, replanted and operated his own vineyards, and has managed vineyards as a professional manager. He has developed and taught most of the professional appraisal seminars and courses on the topic, and has contributed to several textbooks published on the subject.

After undergraduate work at Saint Mary’s College of California and Syracuse University, Tony graduated from California State University, Fresno, with a major and post-graduate work in English and a second major in Russian. Prior pursuits include former lives as a grape grower, partner in a large commercial real estate brokerage, various government positions, including a tour as an IRS examiner, and as a military intelligence analyst, cryptologist, and linguist. He now lives in Sonoma, with his wife Stephanie, and enjoys travel, great literature and music, fast cars, slow cooking, gardening, the study of wine, and the pursuit of knowledge.