Every real estate decision carries fiscal, political, and community consequences.
Questions we answer
- Will this development generate enough tax revenue to justify public investment and service costs?
- What could be built on this site, and is it financially viable?
- How should a TIF or value capture mechanism be structured to serve the public?
- Is there sufficient market demand to support this project in this location?
How we work
The practice covers the full spectrum of real estate decision-making, from site-level market analysis and financial feasibility to regional economic impact and public finance structuring. Clients include developers, public agencies, housing authorities, and planning bodies. Our analysis connects project economics to public finance tools so that private feasibility and public interest are addressed together. Housing policy and economics is an area of growing depth, bringing analytical capability that most real estate advisory firms do not.
What we deliver
- Market studies and demand analysis
- Whether there is real demand for a project in a specific location.
- Financial feasibility and highest-and-best-use
- What a site can support, and whether the numbers work for owners, developers, and investors.
- Tax Increment Financing (TIF) analysis
- Sizing and structuring TIF so it serves both the deal and the public.
- Value capture and special district economics
- Mechanisms that let communities share in the value new development creates.
- Opportunity Zone analysis
- The economic and tax case for Qualified Opportunity Zone investment.
- Economic and fiscal impact of proposed developments
- What a project returns to the surrounding community in jobs, activity, and public revenue.
- Affordable housing finance and policy
- Housing needs assessments, finance analysis, and LIHTC-ready market studies.
- Development advisory
- Analytical support across a real estate decision, from concept through public hearing.
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