Three practices. One institutional standard.
Every engagement is built from the ground up — no templates, no shortcuts. Our capabilities span the full arc of institutional real estate: underwriting, model platforms, and portfolio optimization.
01Investment Underwriting
Institutional underwriting frameworks supporting acquisitions, developments, and complex investment transactions.
Underwriting engagements are structured around the specific mandate: acquisitions, development, refinances, recapitalizations, and portfolio-level transactions. Every model separates data, logic, and outputs so assumptions remain transparent and audit-ready at every stage.
Deliverables include the underwriting model itself, supporting schedules, and executive-ready outputs — with dedicated review passes before hand-off. Ongoing underwriting support is available on retainer.
- ·Acquisition underwriting (single-asset and portfolio)
- ·Ground-up development underwriting
- ·Recapitalization and refinance analysis
- ·ARGUS import and Excel translation
- ·Waterfall, promote, and JV structures
- ·Dedicated outsourced underwriting support
02Model Platforms
Purpose-built systems for portfolio management, investment reporting, and integration with platforms such as ARGUS and Yardi.
Platform builds replace fragmented per-deal spreadsheets with a single system aligned to how your firm invests, reports, and makes decisions. Each platform is designed to compound analyst productivity across every future deal.
Platforms are architected in three layers — data, calculations, outputs — so components can be customized, extended, and audited independently over time.
- ·Underwriting platforms (per-strategy)
- ·Portfolio and fund reporting systems
- ·ARGUS ↔ Excel integration layers
- ·Yardi and third-party data pipelines
- ·Investment committee memo automation
- ·AI tool and workflow integration
03Portfolio Optimization
Attribution analysis, risk evaluation, and capital allocation frameworks designed to improve investment performance over time.
Portfolio work supports capital deployment decisions — identifying performance drivers, quantifying risk exposures, and testing capital allocation strategies against a range of market scenarios.
Engagements typically pair a portfolio-level analytical framework with a supporting reporting layer so that findings can be reviewed, discussed, and acted on across the investment team.
- ·Portfolio attribution and performance analytics
- ·Risk decomposition and stress-testing
- ·Interest rate cap and hedging optimization
- ·Capital allocation frameworks
- ·Pacing and deployment analysis
- ·Fund-level reporting and dashboards
Sectors served.
InstitutionalModels™ works across the full spectrum of commercial real estate, with select adjacent sectors requiring sophisticated capital decision-making.
- Multifamily
- Office
- Industrial
- Retail
- Hospitality
- Mixed-use
- For-sale residential
- Energy
- Sports & entertainment
- Specialty sectors
Discuss a mandate.
Engagements begin with a scoping conversation. Fixed-fee structures with defined milestones. NDAs signed as standard practice.