Charles Edward Blau

Charles E. Blau, Esq. IFAC has been involved in real estate valuation litigation since 1981, mostly in Real Estate Tax Appeals and condemnation. Besides being an attorney, Mr. Blau is a licensed real estate appraiser and was a past national President of the National Association of Independent Fee Appraisers (NAIFA) in Chicago, Illinois where he obtained his counselor’s designation. He has also served on The Appraisal Foundation’s National Education Partnership Task Force and was elected in 2013 by the Foundation’s Sponsors to the Board of Regents for the Alliance for Valuation Education.

Mr. Blau is a graduate of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia and the Washington College of Law of American University in Washington, D.C.

Mr. Blau is an approved instructor with the New Jersey Real Estate Appraisal Board and the New Jersey Division of Taxation and has lectured for the New Jersey Bar Association, New Jersey Institute of Continuing Legal Education, Essex County Bar Association, Appraisal Institute and NAIFA. He has been interviewed by the New Jersey Law Journal, Wall Street Journal and CNN’s Smart Assets television show.

As a partner in Blau & Blau in Springfield, New Jersey, his firm has achieved tax savings for all types of properties including a $440,000 tax reduction for a 270,000 sf mixed use property in Bloomfield, a $614,000 tax savings for a 14 story hotel in East Brunswick, a $1,180,000 savings for a 304 room hotel in Short Hills, a $2,100,000 tax savings for a 420,000 sf office building in East Brunswick, and a 57% reduction for an industrial building in Millville.

Major condemnation cases include negotiation of a $3,450,000 settlement without the need for an appraisal for a property being taken for the Prudential Arena in Newark, and a $5,000,000 decision from condemnation commissioners for land in Lyndhurst where the taking authority offered $420,000. The case was ultimately settled when Lyndhurst waived our client’s portion of back taxes ($2,000,000 owed), which resulted in our client receiving $867,000 plus an environmental indemnity agreement holding our client harmless for a $10,000,000 claim.