About

Nick Chop, MAI joined Cushman & Wakefield in 2025 as an Executive Director with over 30 years of commercial real estate valuation experience specializing in eminent domain and infrastructure-related real estate valuation. Mr. Chop has a highly specialized skill set having worked with some of the nation’s top transportation departments, cities, and utility companies across Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas. He has served as an expert witness in a wide range of transportation, pipeline and utility-related litigation matters, delivering trusted valuation guidance to government and utility entities, law firms and private landowners. 

Mr. Chop has experience appraising property types including neighborhood shopping centers, retail strip‐centers, office buildings, industrial, flex‐space, apartment communities, self‐storage facilities, churches, mixed‐use developments, community development districts (CDD’s), developments of regional impact (DRI’s), residential subdivisions, environmentally sensitive lands, wetlands, pasture, and other similar property types. 

Assignments

Major Right of Way Projects 

• Polk Regional Water Cooperative, Southeast Wellfield and Water Production Facility 
• Florida's Turnpike, Central Polk Parkway, Bartow, Polk County 
• Manatee County, Upper Manatee River Road, Lakewood Ranch 
• FDOT, District Seven – #447536-2 US 301, Dade City, Pasco County 
• FDOT, District Seven – #4475363 US 301, Dade City, Hernando County 
• City of Jacksonville – Old Middleburg Road 
• Jacksonville Electric Authority, Various Parcels & Projects 
• City of Jacksonville – Chaffee Road 
• NCDOT-U-5753-Lindsay Road- Wayside Road, Raeford, Hoke County 
• FDOT, District Five – #435859-4 SR 50 E. of CR 757 to Lake County Line 
• NCDOT - U-4758 – Johnson St. - Sandy Ridge Rd., High Point, Guilford County 
• NCDOT - P-5717 – Cornwallis Rd., Durham, Durham County 
• 250+ Parcel 230-kV Transmission Line Project in Central Florida 
• FDOT, District Four – #4369631 I-95 and 6th Ave., Palm Beach County 
• FDOT, District Two – #4322592 Interstate-95, Duval County 
• NCDOT, 13 Cost Estimates in 11 Counties representing over 2,000 parcels 
• FDOT, District One – #4258432 S.R. 951, Collier County 
• FDOT, District Seven – #2578623 Sam Allen Rd., Hillsborough County 
• Manatee County – Moccasin Wallow Road 
• City of Jacksonville, The Landing Litigation 
• City of Jacksonville, Jacksonville Power Plant Litigation 

Education

Bachelor of Science, Real Estate & Finance, Florida State University