Rocky Mountain Commercial Real Estate members advise owners, occupiers and lenders on the decisions that come before a transaction, and on the ones where no deal follows at all. Not every question ends in a sale, and the work covers finance strategy, investment and market analysis, and valuation.
Members use an integrated, problem-solving approach, with guidance that is unbiased and a working relationship built on trust and integrity. The starting point is your situation rather than a standard product, and the output is a realistic plan for resolving it.
That independence is worth stating plainly. A consulting engagement is charged for the advice, so the recommendation can be to hold, to renegotiate, or to do nothing at all. Members will tell an owner that the building is worth keeping, or that a proposed acquisition does not work at the asking price, because there is no commission riding on the answer.
Typical engagements
- Investment and financial analysis, with performance measurement
- Portfolio and single-property review
- Finance strategies and lease buyout analysis
- Valuation counseling and cash flow analysis
Finance strategy and investment analysis
Decades of transaction history across Colorado markets sit behind the advice. Members work the areas where the answer is not obvious: capital structure, financing strategy, before-and-after-tax yield analysis, and investment performance measurement against what the asset was actually bought to do.
Portfolio and single-property analysis follows the same method. An owner holding several Colorado assets often finds the portfolio is carrying one property that looks fine on the rent roll and is quietly consuming the returns from the rest. Establishing that requires running each asset on its own numbers and against its own local market, which is where a network with brokers in every market has an advantage over a single firm modeling from a distance.
Valuation counseling
Knowing what an asset is worth sits behind almost every other decision, and it is needed as often outside a sale as inside one. Members provide valuation counseling for refinancing, partnership buyouts, estate and succession planning, litigation support, insurance, and internal reporting.
The analysis is built on comprehensive local data rather than on a comparable pulled from a market with different fundamentals. Several members hold the CCIM designation, and the Colorado and Wyoming CCIM chapter is among the professional bodies our brokers are active in.
Lease analysis and occupancy decisions
Members carry out lease analysis for landlords, tenants and investors. For an occupier, that often means answering whether to renew, relocate or buy, and modeling the real cost of each including fit-out, downtime and the terms hidden in the escalation clause.
Lease buyout analysis is a related piece of work and one that routinely saves more than it costs. So is site location and relocation evaluation, where the question is whether a business should stay where it is at all. Members bring demographic and market data to that decision rather than treating it as a property search.
Risk, land use and partnerships
Risk evaluation and management runs across the whole service. On any Colorado asset that can mean environmental exposure, entitlement risk on undeveloped ground, concentration risk in a single-tenant building, or regulatory change in a resort community where short-term rental policy shifts.
Members also advise on land use, master planning and redevelopment where an owner is considering what a site could become rather than what it currently is, and on public and private partnerships, which are a common structure in Colorado mountain towns for workforce housing and mixed-use redevelopment.
Who we work with
Clients range from small commercial investors to global corporate entities. Whatever the size of the portfolio, the individual challenge matters to the member broker taking it on.
- Business owners
- Corporate real estate groups
- Investors
- Lenders
- Operators
- Intermediaries
How engagements are structured and charged
Consulting work is usually invoiced on an hourly or fixed-fee basis. Other arrangements can be agreed on an individual basis depending on the scope and the length of the engagement.
Members are experienced across the multifaceted business of commercial and industrial real estate, and the objective is advice that is intelligent, thoughtful and achieves the best result rather than the quickest one. Consulting is treated as a process that takes knowledge, experience and judgment, and the relationships that come out of it tend to run for years. Along the way clients gain deeper insight into their own business, their market, and where the opportunities for growth actually sit.
Bring us the question
If the decision in front of you is not a listing, it is still work we do. Tell us the market and the problem, and we will put you with the RMCRE member who knows that ground.