Real Estate Consulting
Our consulting team will listen carefully to your goals and appetite for risk, and help you maximize your strengths and real estate opportunities.
CONSULTING
Real Estate Consulting
OVERVIEW
Custom Real Estate Consulting Services
Our experienced team of consultants thrives on helping our clients make great investment decisions. We will be an extension of your team, helping develop the right strategy for your next project.
Coverage
Our customized consulting projects span US and its unique housing types. Our consultants visit hundreds of markets each year to guide our clients in their housing decisions.
Home Building
Since the early 2000s, JBREC has completed thousands of assignments, and we help the nation’s top homebuilders succeed well into the future.
Masterplans
Developers of the largest and most complex master plans in the U.S. call on us to help set product, pricing, and amenity strategies for new projects and future phases.
Build-to-Rent and Single-Family Rental
We were one of the first in the industry to consult BTR and SFR, now with an immense database of projects and unmatched experience throughout the country.
Apartments
Our comprehensive understanding of housing offers clients a unique advantage for setting revenue projections and strategy for new apartments.
Mixed-Use
We evaluate mixed-use projects holistically, maximizing value by connecting residential and commercial land uses together.
M&A, IPO, and Restructuring
Our national platform of experts offers the scale necessary for large M&A, IPO, and restructuring projects in the housing industry.
Solving today to help you navigate tomorrow.
937
Completed Consulting Projects
in 2022
404
in 2022
143
Metro Areas Visited
in 2022
Our Clients
Clients we've helped in the past
Outperform your competition by aligning your strategic decisions with current and forecasted market conditions in the housing industry.
Home Builders
We help homebuilders determine what to build and what revenues to expect based on competitive positioning, real-time research, and consumer preference analysis.
Masterplan Developers
Our housing segmentation and strategic positioning optimize for-sale housing, BTR, and apartment strategies for the largest and most complex master plans in the US.
Build-to-Rent Operators
We provide strategic input for housing product recommendations, community amenities, and services to be offered and the associated revenue premiums.
Single-Family Rental Operators
Multifamily Developers
Our proprietary research, combined with our real-time data analysis gives clients an advantage in housing product decisions, rent expectations, and lease-up pace.
Private Equity
Our market expertise and unbiased research strengthens the due-diligence process for private-equity investors.
Institutional Investors
Whether it’s entering new markets or making acquisitions, we help institutional investors set realistic expectations for housing opportunities.
Lenders and Capital Sources
Our industry-leading analysis increases confidence and mitigates risk in the decision-making process.
Mixed-Use Developers
We help developers program for-sale and rental housing into mixed-use communities.
Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)
We have the national scale and know-how to support the largest M&A deals in the housing industry.
IPO Underwriters
We have assisted with the IPO process for most for-sale builders and single-family for-rent operators over the past 10 years by narrating the market opportunity.
Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)
We help REITs with due diligence, portfolio analysis, and market intelligence to make sound investment decisions.
Trusted by executive decision makers
Real Estate Consulting Capabilities
Market Feasibility
Clients often engage us in the early stages of a project for guidance on housing product opportunities and performance goals.
Home Price Absorption Recommendations
For each project, we can identify the most market-appropriate housing types, down to individual floor plans. Our recommendations include pricing and absorption targets for these homes.
Rent and Lease-Up Recommendations
We can refine or define the right rental housing to build, including product types and floor plans. Our analyses include rent and lease-up projections for each product type.
Product Recommendations
From recommending what to build to making improvements, we help clients maximize their position in the market. In addition to consultants examining thousands of communities each year, our New Home Trends Institute curates the most innovative home design trends.
Masterplan Segmentation by Product Type
Our segmentation strategies help master-plan developers sell through multiple product types at the same time. We help ensure homebuilders have clear and well-defined opportunities within each masterplan.
Housing Demand Analysis
Our proprietary quantitative demand models identify the depth of demand and opportunities in for-sale and rental housing. We analyze current and future trends in home sizes, prices, rents, incomes, and life stages within specific market areas.
Consumer Targeting
Our experienced consultants help clients target consumers and identify home designs and community features to attract them. In addition, surveys from our New Home Trends Institute offer unparalleled insight into new-home shopper preferences.
Amenity Analysis
We understand how amenities interconnect to create a unique lifestyle for residents. Our guidance helps clients develop the right amenities at the right scale to maximize the appeal of residential real estate.
Market Expansion Strategy and Rankings
We pair quantitative models with national expertise to identify markets with the strongest opportunities for residential real estate investment. Our guidance incorporates the criteria clients consider most important.
Acquisition Due Diligence
We work with clients to determine the market potential for new residential real estate acquisitions. Potential deals can range from raw land to existing apartments and rental neighborhoods.
M&A, IPOs, Portfolios, and Cash Flows
Our team has extensive homebuilding, development, and finance backgrounds. We can complete portfolio analyses, including financial models to estimate revenues, values, and returns in the M&A and IPO process.
Highest and Best Use
We identify land uses that maximize the opportunity for onsite development. Our guidance can help set the vision for a community, giving our clients a clear path forward.
Mixed-Use Strategy
Our team has a deep understanding of how residential and commercial uses interact. We create strategies where the mix of uses is greater than the sum of its parts.
Home Design Trends
Our consulting team is at the forefront of home design trends. We see hundreds of new-home communities each year, and curate the best designs in our New Home Trends Institute.
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