Real Estate Development Consulting

Our Expertise

Simplifying the real estate development process

When it comes to complex real estate development projects, Plante Moran Realpoint, formerly Plante Moran Cresa/REIA, strives to simplify the process. Our experienced team will help you navigate the countless steps and requirements needed to maintain momentum, overcome hurdles, and mitigate risks from concept through opening.

Unsure how to make a project pencil? We assist with development strategy, feasibility analysis, due diligence and underwriting, financing strategy, and incentives. Need help engaging the right team? We can coordinate the bidding process to get the right people at the table. Having trouble navigating entitlements and permitting? Our experts can facilitate the entire process. Contact us to learn more.

Our services

Our real estate asset development consulting services include:
Development project feasibility
We offer feasibility, market research, design, and construction expertise as a full-service partner for developers and contractors, public-private partnerships, municipalities, corporate real estate teams, landowners, real estate investors, and businesses.
Financing & incentives procurement
We use our extensive network to ensure you have a wide array of competitive financing options to consider. As part of this process, we seek to maximize incentives to improve project feasibility and achieve desired return-on-investment targets.
Highest & best use analysis (redevelopment)
Our approach to determining the highest and best use of your property walks you through a process to identify opportunities for the site and assess market and project feasibility to come out with a variety of options for redevelopment.
Market strategy & studies
The right strategy will pave the road to success. Our team offers market supply and demand analysis, reasonableness opinion reports, economic impact studies, and asset positioning and valuations.
Public-private partnerships
Our expertise can ensure a strong, feasible project is conceptualized, developed, and implemented in a way that realizes the broader goals for community and economic development while remaining beneficial to the developer. Learn more.

Plante Moran Cresa and REIA have joined together as Plante Moran Realpoint


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Our Team

Working with our development consultants

Having been involved with billions of dollars in developments, we understand every development is unique. Our consultants seamlessly integrate with your team to add bandwidth and provide proven processes to set your project up for success. On staff, we can pull from the expertise of architects, CPAs, engineers, real estate attorneys, construction experts, leasing experts, project managers, and leaders in every major asset class. Our breadth of resources ensures you have access to the right expertise when you need it.

Contact our team to learn more about how we can help.