Professional Experience
Ryan C. Healy, ARA is the owner of Healy Ranch Appraisal Group, LLC based in Tyler, Texas. The firm is a full-service real estate appraisal company specializing in the valuation of farm, ranch, commercial, and special use properties. As an expert with over 24 years of real estate and business experience, he is actively involved in complex appraisal assignments and valuation counseling on a statewide basis in Texas. He serves as an expert witness providing testimony and litigation support regarding real estate matters in numerous trials, hearings, and depositions in Texas county courts.
Ryan’s primary trade area encompasses the rural and developed areas of South, Central and West Texas. Having moved from San Antonio to Tyler in 2023, he aspires to increasingly work the North and East Texas regions.
Presently and since 2003, he has been engaged in independent fee appraising and contract work with other professional appraisers in the central Texas area. Ryan is also experienced in ranch and residential investments, individually and with various partners.
Valuation focus includes the following:
Farms & Ranches, Water Rights and Minerals
- Appraisals of working, recreational and game managed ranches in Texas, New Mexico and Arkansas
- Cattle ranches over 100,000 acres and highly improved recreational properties
- Agribusiness properties including feedlots, grain elevators, fertilizer plants, chemical plants, etc.
- Irrigated and dry farmland; rice, cotton, grain and hay farms
- Horse farms with breeding and training facilities
- Conservation, avigation, right of way, transmission line and pipeline easements
- Groundwater and riparian water rights; permitted water rights conversions
- Rural property partitions and undivided interest valuations
- Estate planning and valuations for litigation
- Pre-sale and acquisition investment counseling
- Hunting and grazing lease studies
- Range and wildlife management
- River, creek, lakefront and coastal properties
- Livestock, agricultural machinery and equipment
- Producing and non-producing minerals in the Eagle Ford and Permian Basin fields
- Oil field surface impact matters related to rural land in the Eagle Ford, Permian Basin and other fields
Commercial, Urban Land and Special Use
- Income generating commercial and special use properties
- Multi-tenant high rise and single tenant office buildings
- Industrial, manufacturing, office/warehouse, auto dealerships, and self-storage
- Single and multi-tenant retail, pad sites, convenience stores, and car wash properties
- Multi-family, residential, resort hotels, corporate retreats and summer camps
- Aircraft hangars and runways, concrete batching plants and offshore docking facilities
- Commercial acreage including small to large commercial sites and large development tracts
Distinguished Projects and Clients
- Statewide land market and wetlands studies for federal users
- Appraisals of coastal properties for a bay and estuary protection organization
- UASFLA (Uniform Appraisal Standards for Federal Land Acquisitions) Yellow Book appraisals
- Collateral risk appraisals for Farm Credit Bank of Texas (Capital Farm Credit)
- Contributions of land data to the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University
- Corporate clients include major banks, investment, law and accounting firms, trusts, etc.
Specialized Education
Successfully completed the following courses and seminars offered by the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers, the American Society of Appraisers, and the Texas Alliance of Land Brokers:
- Sales Comparison Approach for General Appraisers – A-302
- Advanced Rural Case Studies – A-400
- Advanced Rural Valuation – A-300
- Market Analysis and Highest & Best Use – A-290
- Eminent Domain – A-250
- ASFMRA Code of Ethics
- Intermediate Rural Valuation – A-200
- Appraisal Report Writing – ALL215
- Wind Powered Electric Generators – Impact on Land Ownership
- Wind, Water, Wildlife & Minerals
- Mineral Rights for Agents
- Appraising Natural Resources
- Requirements of UASFLA “The Yellow Bookâ€
- Policy Markets and Management Impacts on Rural Real Estate
- Advanced Water Rights for Agents: The Texas Water Code
Successfully completed the following courses offered by the Appraisal Institute:
- Advanced Income Capitalization – AI-510
- Real Estate Finance Statistics and Valuation Modeling – AI-300
- Basic Income Capitalization – AI-310
- Real Estate Appraisal Principles – AI-110
- Real Estate Appraisal Procedures – AI-120
- Standards of Professional Practice (USPAP)
- Eminent Domain and Condemnation
- Texas Appraiser – Trainee Supervisory Appraiser Course
Early career experience includes commercial sales account manager positions at Dell Computer Corporation and Ernst & Young during 2000 through 2003.
Professional Credentials and Affiliations
- Accredited Rural Appraiser (ARA) No. 44648 awarded in 2010 by the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers
- ASFMRA Texas Chapter Member, 2008 (Board of Directors 2016 – 2017)
- State Certified General Real Estate Appraiser; State of Texas (Certification Number TX-1337332-G)
- Member of the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association (No. 1700610)
- Member of the Texas Alliance of Land Brokers; Texas Water Rights Specialist (TWRS)
Education
- Texas Tech University, Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance, Lubbock, Texas, 1999
- Graduate School, attended Texas Tech University MBA Program, Lubbock, Texas, 2002
- Del Rio High School, Del Rio, Texas, 1995