About
Current responsibilities
Mr. Johns serves as a Senior Director for JLL Value and Risk Advisory in the United States. Based in the Tampa Bay region, Jim is focused on the quality assurance and the appraisal review process that seeks to ensure high-quality JLL report standards for our clients, intended users, and assignment stakeholders.
The Appraisal Institute has also recognized Jim’s expertise and has identified him as an improved instructor of the General Review Theory course required for the AI-GRS designation.
Experience
Prior to joining JLL, Mr. Johns focused on commercial real estate appraisal reviews in the banking sector for eight years (KeyBank and Citizens Bank). The valuations included a diverse set of property types: multifamily; affordable housing, healthcare; continuum care, hospitality; restaurants; and special use properties. With KeyBank, Jim took the lead position to fine-tune the technical expertise in Freddie Mac and FNMA affordable housing appraisals and report ordering to ensure assignments met or exceeded FNMA and Freddie Mac requirements.
In the banking sector, Mr. Johns was relied upon by underwriters, relationship managers, and portfolio managers for valuation expertise.
Prior to banking, Jim Johns was the principal owner of a fee appraisal firm for 10 years that served financial institutions and local developers in Columbus, Ohio. The firm completed hundreds of valuation assignments for a variety of property types. As part of the valuation process, Jim developed a highly reliable commercial property database that grew to 6,000 properties for comparable sales and income properties used in appraisal assignments. The database linked to MS Word to help streamline report writing while maintaining highly reliable details for analysis.
In an ongoing effort to provide better reports, services, and educational contributions, Jim has developed technical software knowledge utilizing: Argus modeling; MS Access database; MS Excel; MS Word to prepare a variety of executive summaries and written reports; and MS PowerPoint for education/training presentations.
From a community service perspective, Jim worked as an Adjunct Professor at Columbus State (third largest college in Ohio) teaching real estate finance concepts, analysis methodology, and reporting for commercial and residential real estate courses. This was a part-time position that provided an opportunity from a community service perspective as a way to “give back” and “pay it forward”.
Education
- The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business.
- MBA with a concentration in finance and real estate.
- Bachelor of Science with a dual concentration in city and regional planning plus marketing.
Affiliations
- The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business. Alumni Advisory Board (8 years)
- City of Dunedin, Florida – Local Planning Agency board member
- City of Dunedin, Florida – Community Redevelopment Agency board member
- Country Woods Homeowners Association – board member
Certified General Real Estate Appraiser:
- Florida