Prior & Associates was founded in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1987 to provide land planning, market analysis, and development assistance to public agencies and private developers. Since moving to Colorado in 1991, the firm has expanded its services to include the design, preparation, and implementation of community needs assessments, strategic plans, housing programs, zoning guidelines, market analyses, feasibility studies, and program evaluations.

In 1997, the firm started to focus its activities on housing market research. Our previous experiences, which ranged from preparing community-wide assessments to implementing individual projects on specific sites, allow us to understand project design, development, and management issues from the perspective of designers, architects, developers, underwriters, lenders, and property managers. As a result, we have developed a diverse list of clients, which includes lenders, investors, syndicators, developers, non-profit organizations and government agencies.

In early 2017, John transferred ownership of the company to Thad and Tyler. Upon his retirement, John had worked for over 25 years in the private, public and nonprofit sectors, including over 15 years focused nearly exclusively on market research for Low Income Housing Tax Credit projects. John has directed over 3,000 market studies for affordable housing projects for real estate developers, investors, housing authorities and government agencies in urban, suburban and rural areas throughout the United States. Before establishing the company, John was a principal with Community Sciences Corporation, a full-service planning, civil engineering and surveying company in Corrales, New Mexico, and a program manager for the New York State Division of Housing and Community Renewal. John has a master’s degree in Urban Planning from Rutgers University. He is a founding member of the National Council of Housing Market Analysts and a certified general appraiser.

The staff at Prior & Associates has more than 50 years combined experience in providing housing research and analysis. The firm continues to build on and expand its research and analytical capacities through use of its rental property survey and operating expense  databases.

With our vast background, experience and database capabilities, we are able to more deeply investigate rental housing trends and provide results that best inform our clients.