Pete Burness is a Certified Residential Real Estate Appraiser with extensive experience appraising high-end, complex, and architecturally significant properties, as well as extensive experience appraising the homes of high-profile homeowners. Pete has been interviewed by both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal about high-end and architectural appraisals and has appraised in excess of 12 billion dollars of residential real estate since 2001 including more than 1,500 valuations of properties with values of $3,000,000 or greater, and an Average of more than $8,000,000 since 2019. In 2019 Pete completed $1,000,000,000 of residential appraisals in a single calendar year.

Pete has extensive experience appraising architecturally significant homes designed by noted Mid-Century Modern, Modern, early 20th Century and current architects such as: Abramson Teiger Architects; Gregory Ain; Thornton M Abell; Anonymous Architects; John C. Austin; Barbara Bestor; Joseph Blick; Michael Boyd; Buff & Hensman; Buff, Straub & Hensman; Robert Byrd; Chasen Architecture; Kevin Clark; J.R. Davidson; Pierpont Davis; Domicile Design; Richard Dorman; Joseph Eichler (Jones & Emmons); Craig Ellwood; Robert D. Farquhar; Ed Fickett; Escher Gune Wardena; Frank Gehry; Irving Gill; Ron Goldman; Green & Green; Elmer Grey; Harwell Hamilton Harris; Myron Hunt; iD Group; A. Quincy Jones; Stephen Kanner; Ray Kappe; Arthur R. Kelly; William Kesling; Pierre Koenig; John Lautner; Ricardo Legorreta; Hal Levitt; Leland Lewis; Marshall Lewis; Jerrold Lomax; Marmol Radziner; Marston & Van Pelt; Marston, Van Pelt & Maybury; Vitus Matare; Cliff May; McClean Design; Scott Mitchell Studio; Ed Niles; Richard Neutra; Kemper Nomland; Lorcan O'Herlihy; David Ogilvie; Zoltan Pali; John Parkinson; John Pawson; RBK Architects; SAOTA, Rudolph Schindler; Rafael Soriano; Studio 0.10; Studio EA; Boulder Thorgusson; Urban Operations; Rodney Walker; The Warner Group; Paul Williams; Frank Lloyd Wright (consulted); Lloyd Wright; and Bernard Zimmerman.

Pete is an expert appraiser with extensive experience completing valuations throughout much of Western Los Angeles County as well as portions of Southern Ventura County.

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Craig Ellwood, Architect. The Steinman House. 1956. Malibu, Ca.

Craig Ellwood, Architect. The Steinman House. 1956. Malibu, Ca.


Richard Neutra, Architect. The Kun House 2. 1950. Hollywood Hills, Ca.

Richard Neutra, Architect. The Kun House 2. 1950. Hollywood Hills, Ca.


Pierre Koenig, Architect. The Gantert House. 1981. Hollywood Hills, Ca.

Pierre Koenig, Architect. The Gantert House. 1981. Hollywood Hills, Ca.


Richard Neutra, Architect. The Heryford House. 1951. Studio City, Ca.

Richard Neutra, Architect. The Heryford House. 1951. Studio City, Ca.


Richard Neutra, Architect. The Wirin House. 1949. Los Feliz, Ca.

Richard Neutra, Architect. The Wirin House. 1949. Los Feliz, Ca.


A Quincy Jones, Architect. 1961. Studio City, Ca.

A Quincy Jones, Architect. 1961. Studio City, Ca.