Courtney Lees receives Area Achievement Award

Real Estate Weekly, April 5, 2000

Courtney B. Lees, director of senior housing and healthcare for Cushman & Wakefield of Connecticut, Inc. has received the New York Area Quality Achievement Award, according to Kenneth M. Krasnow, regional managing director of Cushman & Wakefield's Connecticut and New York offices.

The New York Area Quality Achievement Award recognizes an individual's dedication to detail and delivering work that is recognized by clients as superior.

Lees serves as a director of the Senior Housing/Healthcare Industry Group at Cushman & Wakefield and has more than 18 years of experience. Her specialty is involved with appraisal and counseling for senior housing and healthcare properties on a national basis. Her responsibilities include coordination of the firm's national Senior Housing/Healthcare Industry Group, consisting of appraisers who specialize in independent living retirement communities, assisted living facilities, continuing care retirement facilities, skilled, intermediate and subacute care nursing homes, hospitals and other healthcare oriented property types. She has personally appraised and consulted for more than 500 senior housing and healthcare facilities located throughout the country.

Lees has earned several professional affiliations including Member Appraisal Institute (MAI) and is a certified general real estate appraiser in Connecticut, New York, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan and Maine. She is a general admissions committee member for region IV of the Appraisal Institute.

A resident of Old Greenwich, Lees earned a BA in Urban Affairs and Public Policy from The State University of New York in Purchase.