Jeff Colton

Jeff Colton serves as Executive Vice President at Partner Valuation Advisors. Mr. Colton is a multi-housing specialist with experience throughout the Western United States. He is based in the firms’ Southern California office in Irvine.

Mr. Colton started his career in the senior housing communities’ sector focusing on independent living, assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing facilities. Recently, the primary focus of Mr. Colton’s practice is on multifamily communities. 

That includes:

• Market-rate/restricted-rate apartments; LIHTC communities, Section 8/HAP Contracts, HFA Contracts, and assets in local rate restricted markets 
• Mixed-use communities with an office or retail component
• Single-family subdivision (for rent or sell off)
• Student Housing / Co-Living Communities (rent by unit and rent by bedroom) including both smaller and institutional sized assets either near major college campuses or in urban
• areas
• Manufactured Housing Communities (MHCs)
• Land valuation assignments encompassing properties in all aspects of a life cycle including proposed developments and land values, value-add scenarios, and stabilized communities.

Among the highlights of his career include a proposed affordable project with 2,000 restricted units across five phases, with multiple buildings within the project restricted to Veterans and those classified as Homeless or At-Risk (designated Permanent

Support Housing); a proposed mixed-use project with 573 units and ground floor retail; an existing mixed-use project with 393 units and ground floor retail; a proposed subdivision that included more than 541 residential units (apartments, townhomes, and SFRs); and a Single-Family Residence with nine proposed ADUs.

Mr. Colton earned a master’s degree in Business Administration from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management and a bachelor’s degree in Materials Science/Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mr. Colton holds appraisal licenses in California, Arizona, and Texas.