Relocation Services

For over 20 years, Martyn Daniel has managed and provided business relocation advisory services, cost estimates, and planning services to several hundred displaced persons, including industrial, commercial, non-profit, mom-and-pop operations, and homeowners, while following the Federal Uniform Act.  Individual relocation costs have ranged from a few thousand dollars to $35 million.  His expert knowledge of methods for distinguishing trade fixtures (personal property) from permanent fixtures (real property) has added nearly $8M in additional relocation reimbursements for a single client.  He has supported this work in claims, negotiations, appeal hearings, mediations, and trials.

Cost to Cure and Replacement Cost Estimates

For nearly 40 years, Martyn Daniel has prepared construction preliminary designs and cost estimates. The recent 20 years have focused on developing designs and cost-to-cure estimates as high as $1 million for properties where a partial property taking is considered for right-of-way purposes, and replacement cost estimates as high as $1.7 billion for real property improvements related to eminent domain and other real property valuation needs.  He has supported this work in claims, negotiations, mediations, arbitrations, and trials.

Why it Works

Martyn’s education in architecture and business, along with IRWA courses and CLE seminars related to the Uniform Act, coupled with his history in design/construction work of nearly 20 years as a commercial general contractor, has led to his ability to provide easy-to-visualize schematic designs and exhibits along with detailed construction cost estimates and reports for purposes of relocation, acquisition, cost-to-cure, replacement value, and lender financing.