Identifying development opportunities – maximizing value for all stakeholders
Real Estate development.
Strategic advisory.
Urban and architectural design.
Profile
About Achilles+Partners
Achilles + Partners (in Germany “Achilles Real Estate Development GmbH”) is an international, multi-disciplinary team of experienced real estate investment and development specialists, urban planners and architects, acting as strategy advisors, project designers and development managers for selected private and institutional investors.
We focus on conceptualizing, planning and initiating large scale, mixed-use urban development projects and have created some innovative niche products in the residential and commercial sectors. We are currently based in Germany and were previously and remain active in several international markets, including Brazil and the United Arab Emirates.
Over the last years we have helped numerous investors, landowners and developer partners to identify and prepare promising development opportunities, elaborate integrated development plans, create design solutions, secure permits and manage the complex delivery processes. As a result, the value of their properties could be increased significantly, and development risks be reduced and mitigated.
We set ourselves high standards for our projects and for how we conduct our business activities. With seriousness, integrity and passionate creativity we aim to add relevant, measurable and long-lasting value for all stakeholders.
Capabilities - Activities
We are developers, designers and strategy consultants. We look at opportunities from different angles, assess risks and prepare mitigation strategies based on decades of “hands-on” experience. Our multi-disciplinary, integrated set of capabilities allows us to step in and help our clients and partners at different stages of the value adding chain, as advisors and/or executive representatives.
Development
Design
Advisory
Development
Design
Advisory
Global perspective,
international experience
and relationships
We have worked as real estate developers, strategy consultants and planners in different international markets, for and in partnerships with some of the sector’s leading organizations. This allowed us to build a network of close relationships with many international private and institutional investors, operators and best-in-class specialist consultants. The countries we have worked in include: Germany, Brazil, Russia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Oman.
Business development
+ product development
= an integrated approach
Strategic advisory services
From multi-disciplinary and international perspectives
- Business model and competitive positioning
- Organizational development
- Workflow optimization
- Growth, restructuring, turn-around management
- Corporate governance
- Capability- building and strategy application support.
- Portfolio analysis/ project due diligence
- Market studies, highest and best use analysis
- Feasibility studies
- Economic development and demand creation strategies
- Integrated Development Plans (combined business, product and process plans)
- Peer reviews/ juries
- Project repositioning/ work-outs.
- Opportunity sourcing and evaluation
- Market entry strategies
- Operational platforms, local partners
- Acquisitions/ Dispositions
- Investor prospecting, placement and investment structuring
- Ongoing investment monitoring, reporting and owner representation.
Development management services
Guiding the Process through „Integrated Development Plans“
- Owner representation
- Investment analysis, feasibility studies
- Project conceptualization, business plans
- Elaboration of Integrated Development Plans
- Own test designs and/or design management
- Selection, briefing and guidance of technical and commercial specialist consultants
- Management of project permitting process
- Support of owner with fund raising and investment structuring. Preparation of investment memoranda
- Support of procurement, tender and award of construction work
- Support of marketing and sales efforts
Projects
Integrated development concepts, master planning, design studies, project realizations
We have worked in different capacities – as advisors, as development managers, as designers, often in combination – on a broad spectrum of project types. Most of our projects were large-scale, mixed-use urban developments, including entire new cities or city districts and business clusters.
Our comprehensive and in-depth knowledge of the entire real estate value chain, our decades of experiences “having sat on different sides of the table” enables us to take an integrated strategic approach from the outset. It allows us to think and plan holistically, to anticipate future requirements and to consider long-term effects right from the start.
We are design-driven, believe in the value of good design, its profound and long-lasting impact on people, their well-being, creativity and productivity, as well as on natural environments and our limited resources. The early concept-and-design phases, on which we concentrate particularly, is where the most project value can be gained (or lost).
In a pro-active and responsible forward- looking way we initiate, plan and guide the development process as partner, owner representative and always with an owner’s perspective, focusing on tangible, measurable results for all stakeholders.
Micro Living
A new waterfront city in the South of Brazil – Solar Plan
Riverfront Residential Community
Urban Farming
Modular Malls
Shopping Mall
Riverfront Towers II
Marina Towers
Diagnostic Center W
Food industry cluster in Dubai
Mixed-use district in Macaé, Phase 1
Affordable housing in Brasil with prefabricated volumetric modules
Residential complex
Urban Block Infill
Riverfront Towers
Guesthouse / Micro Living F
Modular housing Dubai
Office complex Macaé
Hybrid office tower with double-skin façade
Phase 0
Some of the larger consulting and development projects we are working on allow us to start on a blank canvas, to define the project vision and elaborate integrated economic and urban development concepts. We conduct our own, independent and in-depth market studies as well as technical and legal due diligence to define highest-and-best use options for the land and maximum economic impact of the proposed business opportunities. We identify all relevant stakeholders and decision makers, their expectations and agendas to build consensual strategies and map out efficient approval procedures. We know that the more professional, diligent and responsible the early-stage development tasks are conducted, the more solid the basis for long-term successful projects will be – in terms of economic, social and ecological sustainability.
Team
All members of the core team contribute decades of international professional experience. All had worked for many years for sector leading companies in senior and senior executive positions before joining A+P on projects in the Middle East, Brazil and Germany. We often work in strategic partnerships and complement our project teams with trusted specialist consultants from our international network.
Managing Partner
Heiko Achilles has almost 30 years of international professional experience as real estate developer, planner and strategy consultant. After graduating in Architecture at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and a Master in Urban Design/ Focus Real Estate Development from Harvard University, he worked for about 20 years in senior and senior executive positions with some of the world’s leading real estate investors and developers (including TishmanSpeyer Properties, Dubai Holding, Hines), before setting up his own companies. His international working experience includes Germany, the Middle East, Brazil and Russia, where he typically focused on large-scale urban developments. He was/is member of several advisory and supervisory boards of larger real estate development companies (including Kortros, Russia). Heiko Achilles is a licensed architect, registered in Germany (Chamber Hessen).
Languages: German, English, Portuguese.