International experience and relationships

We have worked as real estate developers, consultants and planners in different international markets and with and for some of the sector’s leading organizations. That allowed us to build a network of close relationships with several larger international private and institutional real estate investors.

We prepare comprehensive project development/ investment memoranda and conduct focused road shows to support the fund raising and investment structuring efforts. Different project stages and risk profiles attract different investors with different targets and investment horizons: seed, venture and growth capital investors, real estate development equity investors and debt lenders, as well as long-term exit investors. We offer cross-border real estate investment consultancy services for selected clients.

Integrating economic and urban development strategies

Many of the projects we are involved in are located in emerging market environments. They require a different, more comprehensive and pro-active approach than projects in mature, more transparent, highly regulated real estate markets. We elaborate detailed socio-economic and sector specific market studies to identify relevant trends, potential demand drivers and likely target groups, before defining the mix of uses, the project phasing and specific catalyst projects. Strategic “business clusters” and themed destinations can anchor new locations and generate critical mass and attraction power faster and stimulate sustainable growth.

The inception stage of a real estate development project is the most critical phase to determine the value creation potential and associated risks over its entire life-cycle. Strategic decisions made at the front-end have the strongest impact on the final outcome, seed either success or failure. Once built, most assets have little flexibility in use beyond the original intended purpose. It is, thus, imperative to take an integrated, long-term view, anticipate the entire value chain and retain a high degree of adaptability.

Urban development value creation

Achilles+Partners enters into partnerships with private and corporate land owners to help them enhance the value of their properties through strategic planning and integrated development management services. A+P guides the process along the most critical initial steps of the value adding chain, beginning with the preparation of highest-and-best-use analysis, feasibility studies, followed by integrated development plans, concept design studies, assisting with the permitting and prospecting investors and strategic partners for the realization of the subsequent development and asset management phases. The cost for the initial planning activities are typically very low, compared to the high value adding potential of that phase.