Identifying development opportunities – maximizing value for all stakeholders
Real Estate development.
Strategic advisory.
Urban and architectural design.
Profile
About Achilles+Partners
Achilles + Partners is an international, multi-disciplinary team of experienced real estate investment and development specialists, urban planners and architects, acting as strategy advisors 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 based in Germany and have been 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 attractive development opportunities, define strategies, secure permits and manage the complex delivery processes – to enhance the value of their property.
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
Development
Design
Advisory
Development
Design
Advisory
Global perspective,
international experience
and relation-ships
– 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
- Guidance of technical and commercial specialist consultants
- Management of project permitting process
- Support of owner with fund raising and investment structuring
- Support of procurement, tender and award of construction work
- Support of marketing and sales efforts
Projects
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 large variety of project types. Most of the projects were large-scale, mixed-use urban developments, including entire new cities or city districts and business clusters.
As experienced developers and planners we could always approach the opportunities and challenges with a holistic, an integrated and and long-term view. We believe in the value of design, its impact on people, as well as on economic results.
We always begin our projects with the end in mind, aim to anticipate long- term results, plan what can be planned. Based on our comprehensive and profound knowledge of the entire real estate value chain and our experience of “having sat on different sides of the table” we can take such a strategic approach, from the outset.
The concept-and-design phase is where the most project value can be gained (or lost). In a pro-active and responsible forward- looking way we manage the development process as partner, owner representative and always with an owner’s perspective, focusing on tangible, measurable results for all stakeholders.
A new waterfront city in the South of Brazil – Solar Plan
Urban Farming
Modular Malls
Shopping Mall
Marina Towers
Food industry cluster in Dubai
Mixed-use district in Macaé, Phase 1
Affordable housing in Brasil with prefabricated volumetric modules
Residential complex
Riverfront Towers
Modular housing Dubai
Office complex Macaé
Hybrid office tower with double-skin façade
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.