RCLCO

As the nation's leading independent economic real estate advisory services firm, RCLCO helps the real estate industry and public sector clients make sound decisions about development, management, investment and corporate strategy issues. With offices in the Washington, D.C., area (Bethesda, Maryland); Los Angeles; Atlanta; and Orlando, we have extensive experience in virtually every real estate product type. We complete over 600 projects annually for clients that include public sector entities, real estate developers, financial institutions, institutional investors, private investors and Fortune 500 companies.

Some of the services we provide for our clients include:

• Market Analysis, including site assessment, case studies of analogous projects, and supply and demand analyses to put the consumer research in context with the market. This includes preparing statistical demand analyses to forecast demand for residential, retail, office, industrial and hotel uses.
• Consumer Research, including demographic, psychographic, home-graphic, and community preference studies, to determine market depth from the various feeder markets, and to help our clients devise a clearly defined vision and deep knowledge of the target market audience to optimize the effectiveness of community and housing designs and marketing strategies.
• Financial Analysis, including project pro-forma and cash flow analysis, optimization analysis, and sensitivity/variance analysis to test and optimize the development program to maximize profit potential. This also includes fiscal impact analysis for public and private entities.
• Development Services, including working with public sector and non-developer private clients to move a development strategy from concept to implementation.
• Transactional Services, including acquisition and disposition strategies, complex financial arrangement, partnerships and public-private partnerships. We are often called upon by industry leaders to help conceive a strategy plan, either at the project or corporate level that maximizes land values and/or other goals considering regional growth, competition and financial issues.

Additionally, specific market questions emerge that require our unique mix of real estate and consumer research expertise in the formation of product programming recommendations -- density, market orientation, absorption, pricing and amenity/features.

For nearly 40 years, our experienced professionals have advised clients on the strategic and tactical aspects of real estate development. Our work has included market analyses of residential, retail, office, industrial, hotel and mixed-use developments; fiscal and economic impact studies; studies of land use policy issues, including government finance and land use planning topics; valuations; and urban center revitalization efforts. We customize our services to address our client's individual needs, supported by both quantitative analysis and creative problem solving. We pride ourselves on becoming an integral part of the client's team, and work diligently and practically with land planners, architects, engineers, public sector agencies, environmentalists, consumer groups and other interested parties. We not only recommend actionable strategies, we are committed to the successful implementation of the recommendations we make.

Our real estate development and fiscal and economic impact expertise gained by serving the private sector in hundreds of successful developments has increasingly been sought by the public and not-for-profit sectors. The market, financial and impact insight that we typically provide to private sector developments has proved to be valuable to public and not-for-profit sector clients. We are able to familiarize them with real estate market and financing dynamics, and to provide a framework that makes it possible for them to work effectively with real estate investors, developers, lessees and purchasers.

We have unsurpassed experience with market and financial analysis and strategic planning for private and public sector urban developments, encompassing every land use type in virtually every state in the nation. The firm often serves on or manages inter-disciplinary teams with land planners, architects, engineers, transportation consultants, historic preservation consultants and/or attorneys.