Sponsors
B&A Capital Partners is a DIRECT PRIVATE LENDER for non-institutional, short-term, commercial real estate transactions commonly referred to as Private Lending, Hard Money or Bridge Loans. Our primary focus is to provide financing for collateral-based, income producing opportunities that require immediate funding and will lend capital up to 65% of estimated value.
As a private money lender, B&A Capital Partners has the experience, flexibility and financial resources to offer financing options for virtually every product type. Our staff has the knowledge and experience to find creative solutions to even the most challenging real estate deals. We stand behind our reputation for speed, integrity, and our ability to fund deals with our own capital.
Clark Street Capital is a full-service advisory and asset management firm specializing in U.S. real estate assets. By providing disposition solutions for both performing and non-performing assets, we provide results-driven risk mitigation and counsel. Clark Street Capital is comprised of two main businesses: asset management and advisory services via the Bank Asset Network (BAN).
The BAN is a proprietary asset disposition platform that bridges the Bid/Ask Spread between buyers and sellers of bank assets. Focusing specifically on U.S. real estate assets from whole loans to REOs, the BAN offers complete confidentiality to sellers and total transparency to buyers. Additionally, Clark Street Capital provides specialty asset management of owner-occupied commercial mortgages and SBA loans through a private equity fund and transactional vehicles.
Commercial Asset Preservation, LLC (“CAP”) helps meet the growing need for a national provider of general maintenance, preservation and inspection services for abandoned and nearly vacant commercial and industrial real estate. CAP secures unprotected buildings. CAP ensures that vacant and abandoned properties retain value and don’t further deteriorate, become vandalized, or receive citations for their physical condition. CAP’s services include: boarding/securing, debris/hazard removal, cleaning/janitorial, extermination, winterization, HVAC maintenance, plumbing, electrical, roof maintenance, groundskeeping, parking lot maintenance, graffiti removal, environmental hazard testing/remediation, property inspections/evaluations, and other specialty services designed to meet your specific needs. CAP offers an efficient means of maintaining and protecting your distressed commercial properties in a cost-effective manner. Visit www.commercialpreservation.com for more information.
With over 50 years combined real estate experience, Foresite Realty Partners has initiated two interrelated platforms that compliment the creation of value in its owned real estate portfolio with third-party services: Operating Services and Investment. Based in suburban Chicago, Illinois, Foresite’s experience encompasses not only the major asset classes (office, industrial, retail and multi-family residential), but also specialty use properties such as hospitality, parking garages, gas stations, land and mixed use properties. Foresite’s main geographic reach stretches from New Jersey to Kansas and Minnesota to Georgia with a centralized team in the Chicago land area. In addition, Foresite and its principals have extensive experience throughout other areas of the United States, with a targeted focus on the southeast and southwest regions of the country.
Founded in 1987, GFI provides competitive inter-dealer brokerage services in a multitude of global over-the-counter (“OTC”) cash and derivatives markets, including credit derivatives and fixed income, financial derivatives, cash equities and equity derivatives, energy and commodities. GFI is an industry leader in various credit, financial, equity and commodity markets according to recent market surveys published by Risk and Energy Risk magazines.
Whether real estate is your business, a part of your investment portfolio or an asset to be managed, Holland & Knight real estate lawyers are ready to advise, guide and protect your interests. With a 100-year tradition of providing counsel in real estate law, we are a dedicated and experienced team with more than 240 real estate professionals. Geographic Reach: With multiple offices throughout the U.S. and abroad, our ability to act locally, nationally and internationally ensures the right know-how to properly staff, negotiate and close transactions to streamline even the most complex matter.
Transactional Expertise and Prowess: Our attorney teams are skilled at advising clients so that they are well represented in making decisions that balance their business opportunities against the risks involved, and we are able to handle multiple sophisticated transactions simultaneously. Industry Insight and Operation: From our work in the retail and hospitality industries to the office, industrial, multiuse and residential transactions, our lawyers counsel on the full scope of development, investment, leasing, financing, asset management and purchase and sale activity. Holland & Knight real estate attorneys are informed advisors to assist our clients in the management of their property values and costs, sites and facilities, subletting, leasing and the myriad of other real estate acquisition and disposition issues they face daily.
NAI Hiffman is the largest full-service, privately owned real estate services firm in the Midwest. We deliver results that combine our best real estate practices with your strategic business goals. Every professional service that we provide is focused on your bottom line. We view real estate as a dynamic road map that leads our services to your needs. Wherever you need to be, NAI Hiffman is already there.
The NIGMA Family of Companies helps investors, developers and business owners maximize the value of their real estate ventures by providing a unique, integrated, single source financial, design, and construction solution for their Florida projects. NIGMA Capital & Finance LLC., offers professional consulting services, brokers private equity capital investments, and structures loans for development, construction, and acquisition of real property. NIGMA Construction Corp. (Lic. # CGC 046106) is a Florida State Certified General Contractor specializing in Design-Build construction services. The firm also serves as builder-contractor, and provides Construction Management Services for clients in Florida, and overseas. We service the following cities in Florida as well as their neighboring counties: Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, Stuart, Orlando, Daytona, Naples, Fort Myers, Sarasota, Tampa, Lakeland, Leesburg, Ocala, and Gainesville. We also service clients in neighboring states as requested. If you are considering new construction, a development project, or loan for a new or existing facility, please call us. Our initial consultation is always free. Our expertise can save you time, money, and hassles.
RSM McGladrey Inc. offers business and tax consulting, wealth management, retirement resources, investment banking, and international business services, while McGladrey & Pullen LLP, a CPA firm owned by its individual partners, offers audit and attest services. RSM McGladrey and McGladrey & Pullen have an alternative practice structure. Though separate and independent legal entities, the two firms work together to serve clients’ business needs. Whether it’s accounting, tax or business consulting, we’re focused on listening to your needs, then designing solutions that fit – with your budget, your timeline, your corporate culture and vision. We provide accounting, tax and business consulting services through our practice areas: Tax Services, Business Consulting, Wealth Management, Retirement Plan Services, Investment Banking, Audit & Assurance (McGladrey & Pullen) and International Business Services.
Shepard Schwartz & Harris is the tax advisor and accounting firm of choice for some of the area’s most successful commercial, shopping center and mixed-use real estate developers, homebuilders, contractors and property managers. However, our work is not limited to serving the commercial, residential and shopping center giants. Our extensive industry knowledge and experience is applied to small development companies, builders, contractors and subcontractors, property management firms and investor groups. We also advise family offices and individual investors who want to diversify their portfolios and minimize tax liabilities through various real estate investment or exchange strategies.
From the first day it lists a property, Sperry Van Ness is the only brokerage firm that markets all properties on a national basis to a 100,000-strong brokerage and investment community. Because of its national reach that includes primary, secondary and tertiary markets, Sperry Van Ness excels at seamlessly locating investment options on behalf of clients across the country while leveraging the power of all brokers — even those with competing firms. Unlike most brokerage firms, everything that Sperry Van Ness does is designed to achieve better results for real estate investors. Frankly, no other brokerage firm commits to putting the client’s interest first as quickly and effectively as Sperry Van Ness. It’s proven through our people and processes. Year after year, transaction after transaction, our results prove it. Maximum cooperation equals maximum value.
No matter the size of the project, Stabilized Asset Resources are able to identify market opportunities, cost containment exercises and marketing advantages. We value the asset–maximizing the upside while protecting the downside. Our strength is in identifying the team members best suited for each project and applying their combined expertise and market insights for a successfully completed project.
Trepp is the leading provider of CMBS and commercial mortgage information, analytics and technology to the global securities and investment management industries.
Trepp’s innovative tools for trading, pricing, risk management, research and surveillance are widely used across both the primary and secondary markets.
Industry participants increase their market intelligence, operational efficiencies and information transparency with Trepp’s comprehensive deal coverage of North American, European and Asian CMBS and Commercial Real Estate CDOs.
Triple Crown Insurance Services prides itself on its stability, knowledge, professionalism and staying power in today’s changing insurance environment. We treat our clients as partners.
Our qualified, experienced staff are ready to provide you with expert service and risk management solutions. The Agency’s access to top rated, financially sound, regional and national carriers allows us to meet even the most challenging insurance needs of our clients.
We can handle the most challenging business situations and opportunities imaginable. We develop solutions that take advantage of the current insurance markets and provide competitive insurance policies so your business can be successful.
Triple Crown Insurance Services is licensed for property/casualty insurance in all 50 states as well as the District of Columbia.
With over 2,000 members, the Young Real Estate Professionals of Chicago is the largest commercial real estate organization for young professionals. Started in 1999 it holds monthly speaker luncheons, social networking functions, and donates tens of thousands of dollars to charities and local universities. The purpose of YREP is threefold; (1) to further the development of young professionals in all areas of commercial real estate, (2) to promote avenues of communication among young professionals in the industry, and (3) to leverage the industry knowledge of prominent commercial real estate leaders. For more information go to www.yrep.org.
Navigating the commercial real estate landscape takes experience, knowledge and proven business skills. The dedicated team of real estate brokers and managers at Zifkin Realty Group delivers these resources and provides solutions to marketplace challenges. The company was founded in 1998 by Edward M. Zifkin, CCIM, a nationally-recognized industry leader. We evolved from a boutique brokerage and development company to a full-service retail and office firm with an impressive and growing client list. Today, we are agile enough to represent national retailers seeking market-wide expansion, yet small enough to represent a tenant. Zifkin Realty Group is headquartered in Chicago, but our work takes us throughout the metropolitan Chicago region as well as to primary, secondary and tertiary markets across the country. Contact a Zifkin professional to learn more about the range of services we offer and the success we deliver.
Media Partners and Supporting Associations
Real Estate Alert guarantees your edge in the commercial-property marketing. See for yourself how the newsletter gives you an inside look at the secret moves of dealmakers — and how it helps you spot the latest risks and opportunities.
Commercial Mortgage Alert tips you off to the latest developments in the fast-moving CMBS market and gives you an inside look at the industry’s most important borrowing and lending activities worldwide.
The Commercial REO Brokers Association, (CREOBA) was formed to assist the Banks and Loan Servicers in selling their Foreclosed Commercial Properties. Ray McLaine, CREOBA President, pointed out that, “Last year 4.5 Billion Dollars in Commercial Real Estate was foreclosed by Banks. This year, that figure could reach $20 Billion with $200 Billion more to come in the next two years.” The Commercial REO Brokers Association is working with the Banks and Asset Management
Companies to create “Standards of Service and Best Practices” between the Bank REO Departments and the Brokers that will be selling their foreclosed properties.
National Real Estate Investor is the leading authority on commercial real estate trends. The magazine’s readers represent a cross-section of disciplines — brokerage, construction, owner/development, finance/investment, property management, corporate real estate, and real estate services. No other publication provides as much independent research on a variety of topics that pertain to the office, industrial, retail, hotel and multifamily markets as National Real Estate Investor.
The Real Estate Investment Securities Association (REISA) is a national trade association serving professionals who offer and distribute all forms of real estate investment securities. Established in 2003, REISA promotes the highest ethical standards to its members as well as provides education and information to the entire real estate securities community. REISA members include: registered representatives, registered investment advisors (RIAs), broker-dealers, sponsors, qualified intermediaries, lenders,attorneys, CPAs, mortgage brokers, consultants and other affiliated professionals.
With more than 250 members, CREW Chicago is the preeminent organization for senior-level executive women in the Chicago real estate field. As part of CREW Network, the industry’s premier networking organization, CREW Chicago is dedicated to advancing the success of women in commercial real estate. Our membership of 7,000 professionals in 71 major markets across North America represents all aspects of commercial real estate enabling you to access Real Estate leaders across the spectrum of geography and discipline.