Matt Stephens

Matt Stephens serves as a Director of Valuation & Advisory Services in Partner’s St. Louis, Missouri office and is a Midwest regional lead of the National Multifamily Practice and a member of the National Self-Storage Practice.

Mr. Stephens is an accomplished real estate professional with 20+ years of experience advising major financial institutions, institutional investors, private equity firms, and family offices across the United States. Over the past five years, he has completed and/or advised on more than $6 billion in aggregate transaction and valuation/advisory assignments, spanning strategic advisory, asset valuation, and investment sales.

Prior to joining Partner Valuation Advisors, Mr. Stephens has held senior roles across valuation/advisory and capital markets since 2002, including Commercial Appraisal Network, LLC (Vice President), Grubb & Ellis Landauer (opened and led the St. Louis office, 2011–2012), and CBRE, Inc. (Vice President/Team Lead, 2012–2021). From 2021 through the end of 2025, he led the multifamily investment sales team in St. Louis for Cushman & Wakefield as Director – Capital Markets | Investment Sales.

Mr. Stephens has experience across a wide range of property types, including multifamily, self-storage, retail, industrial, office, agricultural, manufactured housing communities, auto dealerships, gas stations, seniors housing, schools, hotels, recreation facilities, and off-airport parking facilities, supporting assignments for refinancing, acquisition, internal decision-making, estate planning, market and feasibility studies, tax credit analysis, and going-concern valuations.

Mr. Stephens currently serves as a coach for two youth sports teams at St. Justin the Martyr in St. Louis, Missouri, and he enjoys spending his free time with his wife and four daughters.

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St. Louis, MO

P. Ryan McDonald

Ryan McDonald serves as the Managing Director of Partner Valuation Advisors (PVA) in St. Louis, Missouri. Ryan oversees a team of local and regional appraisers in the Midwest and leads PVA’s national self-storage practice. 

With 20 years of experience in the commercial appraisal industry, Ryan has a broad range of expertise in the valuation of institutional commercial real estate including office, retail, industrial, multi-housing, self-storage, seniors housing, hospitality, mixed-use, residential subdivisions, renewable energy properties, and going concern valuations of complex assets. 

Ryan handles various national client accounts and is regularly involved in national portfolio originations and management. Ryan has deep real estate valuation ties with major financial institutions, pension funds, REITs, insurance companies, and hedge funds. Ryan has also provided expert testimony in litigation assignments and tax appeal cases.