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Mr. John A. Howard, ASA

Unclaimed appraiser profile
Equity Research Services, Inc.

Mr. John A. Howard, ASA is listed in the FAIR appraiser registry with an office in Raleigh, North Carolina. The record comes from the American Society of Appraisers (ASA) member directory and lists ASA. Listed specialties: Business Valuation.

Appraiser facts

Specialties
Credentials, memberships and roles
  • ASA

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Office location

Raleigh, North Carolina

Fees

Not supplied. Ask for written terms that do not depend on value, sale price or outcome.

Website

equityresearch.com

Registry status

Listed · Unclaimed

Listed since 2026-02-20; record edited 2026-08-25.

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Source record and dates
Source checked
Not supplied
Profile record edited
2026-08-25
Listed since
2026-02-20
Source freshness
Source-check date unavailable
Source confidence
Website-backed unclaimed profile
Source wording
Business Valuation, ASA
Linked source
equityresearch.com
Discovery status
Unclaimed appraiser profile
Profile completeness
Strong public detail
Profile evidence confidence
Website-backed public source
Formal-use routing signals
Unknown

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Mr. John A. Howard, ASA is a website-backed, unclaimed FAIR profile for Raleigh, source checked 2026-05-28, with Equity Research Services, Inc. listed as the business name. FAIR lists Business Valuation and ASA in the profile name or specialty fields, but no service category, formal-use routing signal, fee language, USPAP education detail, or claimed profile control. The listed equityresearch.com source currently resolves to a minimal consent-style page rather than a usable practice description, so direct confirmation is important. A High Rock Partners article identifies John "Buddy" Howard as running Equity Research Services Inc., describes that firm as providing investor research for publicly held financial companies, and says Howard previously worked at Carolina Securities Inc., a Raleigh brokerage firm. The same article places Howard in a High Rock context involving business sales, growth and exit strategies, leadership transitions, and strategic or financial advisory services. Treat this as a business-valuation, investor-research, or financial-advisory lead, not an antique, furniture, art, jewelry, estate-contents, household personal-property, or estate-sale appraisal lead.

Source-backed fit is clearest for business valuation, investor research, financial advisory, valuation and investor-relations contexts, business-sale or ownership-transition work, and financial-company research. Current evidence does not support furniture, antiques, estate contents, fine art, jewelry, machinery and equipment, or household personal-property appraisal routing.

Before outreach, confirm whether the assignment concerns a business interest, equity or securities research, transaction advisory, financial opinion, investor relations, ownership transition, or another business-valuation purpose. Ask for report type, value premise, intended users, credentials, fees, current contact path, and whether the listed equityresearch.com source is still active.

Written from registry data and this appraiser's public materials. Descriptive only — not a certification, ranking, or endorsement.

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