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Real Estate ConsultingAspect Company Corporation offers clients full-service commercial brokerage services.
Investment Sales
Aspect has a team of professionals that is consistently recognized in the industry. Aspect recognizes that every deal is unique and offers services tailored to the client. Aspect services include quiet, off-market deals for those who value discretion, as well as exclusives for owners seeking a full market launch.
We work with institutions, REITs, and private investors seeking to maximize their real estate position and strategies for properties ranging from portfolios of owned real estate and non-performing loans to single-tenant net leases, multi-family properties, hotels, industrial parks, and corporate headquarters.
We maintain relationships with buyers of investment and development properties and continually track activity along product type, value range, and geographic area.
We offer teams who specialize in specific sectors of investment sales and acquisitions, the structuring of sale-leasebacks, and finance for first mortgage, mezzanine, and construction loans.
Landlord Advisory
At Aspect we do more than finding tenants for our landlords. Our experts help landlords understand the market and ensure their asset meets their financial interests. Aspect achieves this through ensuring that a property is marketed appropriately to a broad base of potential tenants and cooperating brokers. Our process gives landlords a stabilized occupancy, allowing landlords to have cash flowing assets ensuring their ability to keep properties well maintained and desirable in the market.
Our integrated services platform combines dedicated, accountable professionals, process management tools, technology and consistent processes with our outstanding local market knowledge.
Tenant Representation
Aspect works on your behalf to eliminate the work and time required to find the perfect commercial property. Regardless of your parameters for your leasing requirement, Aspect will make a deal that works for you, by ensuring your needs are met, and that the terms of your lease match your requirement. Our process is simple, our experts know the market and ensure that you the client get the best deal possible. By allowing Aspect Real Estate Partners to do the work it allows you the client to put your time energy on running your business. Service is important and our clients continue to show their appreciation through repeat business and referrals of new clients.
Development Consulting
Our capabilities include due diligence, pre-development, development consulting, project management, sustainability planning, move coordination, and lender representation. We offer a full range of services within each of these categories, from high-level strategy and consulting to project management services and other daily processes.
Aspects’ development partners have more than 100 years of experience in architecture, construction management, engineering, investment, and other real estate-related disciplines – are active participants in every project. Their cross-disciplinary, total-project perspective brings new ideas to our work and fosters an entrepreneurial culture where projects are staffed, planned and managed according to the needs of each client. And we actively collaborate with all members of the client, design, construction, and approvals team, involving them in every step of the process. It is an approach that results in more successful project planning and execution.
We provide the expertise, resources, and focus required to manage real estate and development projects in today’s highly complex construction market. By offering complete technical and financial visibility, we minimize cost overruns, drive projects to completion, and protect the reputation and financial interests of our clients.
Corporate Services
Businesses of today rely on Aspect Corporate Solutions to align their real estate, facilities and workplace strategy with their core business plan. Aspect is able to deliver customized, accountable and innovative solutions that result in the best service experience. Our account managers specialize in understanding your unique needs of your organization and act as an extension of your real estate department. Our services will assist with establishing your market needs to include, geographical footprint and occupancy planning, and experience managing integrated services engagements. This creates a competitive advantage for your company by having a flexible partner that understands the impact to your core business and focuses driving a measurable return on investment.
Our integrated services platform combines dedicated, accountable professionals, process management tools, technology and consistent processes with our outstanding local market knowledge.
Market Sector
Strip Center. Strip centers are smaller retail properties that may or may not contain anchor tenants. An anchor tenant is simply a larger retail tenant which usually serves to draw customers into the property. Examples of anchor tenants are Wal-Mart, Publix, or Home Depot. Strip centers typical contain a mix of small retail stores like Chinese restaurants, dry cleaners, nail salons, etc.
Community Retail Center. Community retail centers are normally in the range of 150,000-350,000 square feet. Multiple anchors occupy community centers, such as grocery stores and drug stores. Additionally, it is common to find one or more restaurants located in a community retail center.
Power Center. A power center generally has several smaller, inline retail stores, but is distinguished by the presence of a few major box retailers, such as Wal-Mart, Lowes, Staples, Best Buy, etc. Each big box retailer usually occupies between 30,000-200,000 square feet, and these retail centers typically contain several out parcels.
Regional Mall. Malls range from 400,000-2,000,000 square feet and generally have a handful of anchor tenants such as department stores or big box retailers like Barnes & Noble or Best Buy.
Out parcel. Most larger retail centers contain one or more out parcels, which are parcels of land set aside for individual tenants such as fast-food restaurants or banks.
Heavy manufacturing. This category of industrial property is really a special use category that most large manufacturer’s would fall under. These types of properties are heavily customized with machinery for the end user, and usually require substantial renovation to re-purpose for another tenant.
Light Assembly. These structures are much simpler than the above heavy manufacturing properties, and usually can be easily reconfigured. Typical uses include storage, product assembly, and office space.
Flex warehouse. Flex space is industrial property that can be easily converted and normally includes a mix of both industrial and office space.
Bulk Warehouse. These properties are very large, normally in the range of 50,000-1,000,000 square feet. Often these properties are used for regional distribution of products and require easy access by trucks entering and exiting highway systems.
Classification. Office buildings are usually loosely grouped into one of three categories: Class A, Class B, or Class C. These classifications are all relative and largely depend on context. Class A buildings are considered the best of the best in terms of construction and location. Class B properties might have high quality construction, but with a less desirable location. And Class C is basically everything else.
Central Business District (CBD). Office buildings located in the central business district are in the heart of a city. In larger cities like Chicago or New York, and in some medium sized cities like Orlando or Jacksonville, these buildings would include highrises found in downtown areas.
Suburban office buildings. This classification of office space generally includes midrise structures of 80,000-400,000 square feet located outside of a city center. Cities will also often have suburban office parks which assemble several different midrise buildings into a campus-like setting.
Garden Apartments. Suburban garden apartments started popping up in the 1960s and 1970s, as young people moved from urban centers to the suburbs. Garden apartments are typically 3-4 stories with 50-400 units, no elevators, and surface parking.
Midrise Apartments. These properties are usually 5-9 stories, with between 30-110 units, and elevator service. These are often constructed in urban infill locations.
Highrise Apartments Highrise apartments are found in larger markets, usually have 100+ units, and are professionally managed.
Greenfield Land. Greenfield land refers to undeveloperd land such as a farm or pasture.
Infill Land. Infill land is located in a city has has usually already been developed, but is now vacant.
Brownfield Land. Brownfields are parcels of land previously used for industrial or commercial purposes, but are now available for re-use. These properties are generally environmentally impaired.
Full service hotels. Full service hotels are usually located in central business districts or tourist areas, and include the big name flags like Four Seasons, Marriott, or Ritz Carlton.
Limited service hotels. Hotels in the limited service category are usually boutique properties. These hotels are smaller and don’t normally provide amenities such as room service, on-site restaurants, or convention space.
Extended stay hotels. These hotels have larger rooms, small kitchens, and are designed for people staying a week or more.
The above categories of real estate cover the major types of commercial real estate. However, there are plenty of other types of commercial real estate that investors construct and own. Examples of special purpose commercial real estate include self-storage, car washes, theme parks, bowling alleys, marinas, theaters, funeral homes, community centers, nursing homes, and churches.