Appraisers, Land Agents, and Negotiators Specializing in Specific Claims, Valuations, Negotiations, and Indigenous Consultations.
Bringing depth, knowledge and expertise to each and every project.
With a deep understanding of the sensitivities, issues and relevant legislation surrounding your business.
Years in Business
Province & Territories worked
Hectares of Land Appraised
Aerial Surveys Flown
RIGHT OF WAY ACQUISITIONS
Our Land Agents provide expert negotiation for land acquisitions focusing on public infrastructure projects, pipelines, and complex real property assignments with extensive experience in expropriation and surface rights compensation.
MAPPING
We provide GIS mapping services that enhance understanding of real property and Specific Claims including historical air photo and survey analysis.
INDIGENOUS CONSULTATION
DEMA remains a leader in facilitating Indigenous consultation in Alberta, bringing the expertise and insight necessary to foster meaningful partnerships with Indigenous communities. Our approach honours the unique histories, cultures, and values of each group while effectively navigating regulatory requirements.
SPECIFIC CLAIMS
Our team has led the way for numerous claims within the Specific Claims Tribunal process providing support with negotiations, Loss of Use analysis, current and retrospective valuations, injurious affection, Treaty Land Entitlement, Elder interviews, and community consultation.
APPRAISAL SERVICES
DEMA specializes in full narrative appraisals, benchmark market analysis, fair market rent, and highest and best use analyses for Functional Planning Studies, Special Use Properties, Right Of Ways, Ecological Gifts, Partial Takings, Expropriation, Litigation, and First Nation Land Designation Appraisals.
HISTORIC RESEARCH
Our Research Team of anthropologists provide comprehensive and creative insights that guide clients through the complexities of both litigation and negotiation processes. We shed light on the Indigenous – Canadian relationships throughout history, providing detailed investigation of land uses and their economic potentials through a comprehensive historical and analytical lens. We provide our clients detailed insights into the development patterns and economic shifts of claim lands, facilitating informed decision-making and providing precise understanding of the claim lands' historical and contemporary uses.
VALUATIONS
For over thirty years, DEMA has undertaken valuation work throughout Canada including special use properties, TLE and Specific Claims. We have extensive valuation and damage assessment experience on linear properties such as roads, railways, pipelines, powerline corridors, well sites, fibre optics, and water and sewer lines.
ADVISORY SERVICES
We provide advisory services assisting clients in negotiations and advancing their Specific Claims through Terms of Reference development, independent economic modelling, sensitivity analysis, and present valuation of nominal foregone revenue to determine a reasonable range of compensation in advance of expert report completion.
